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BRIEFLY NOTED.(The Solitude of Thomas Cave)(Brief article)(Book review)

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The Solitude of Thomas Cave, by Georgina Harding (Bloomsbury; $23.95). This austere but atmospheric debut novel tells the story of Thomas Cave, a taciturn seventeenth-century British whaler who accepts a bet to remain on an unexplored island in East Greenland for a year. It's a place where one can "experience the most extreme cold and blizzard even at the ...

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