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Paul Theroux • Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown
duplicitous
Elizabeth Gilbert • The Signature of All Things: A Novel
filled with the kind of determined cheer that masked a deeper despair.
Ruth Ozeki • The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Novel
He’d come to consider himself a connoisseur of the grotesque,
Chuck Palahniuk • Make Something Up
He recognized the familiar, individual, beautiful intake of her flat young abdomen, its wonderful “play,” the frank and eager expression of the oblique muscles and the “smile” of her navel—to borrow from the vocabulary of the belly dancer’s art.
Vladimir Nabokov • Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (Vintage International)
contrivance,