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Disquiet.(Disquiet by Julia Leigh)(Brief article)(Book review)

The New Yorker

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Leigh's first novel was a miracle of compression, a swift, muscular tale of a hunter tracking a near-mythic beast. Here she attempts the same radical economy of language with a more gothic, cluttered story, involving a woman on the run from her abusive husband; two preternaturally knowing children; a rambling French chateau staffed by giggly twin maids; and a philanderer who acquiesces to his ...

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