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Purple Pants And Even Purpler Prose

Rupert Christiansen GEORGE SAND: A WOMAN'S LIFE WRIT LARGE by Belinda Jack Chatto, £20, pp. 412 H ere is a book which may unwittingly mark a new retrograde trend in the writing......

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