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Samedi the Deafness.(Brief article)(Book review)

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Ball, a poet, was once a croupier, and elements of both professions are evident in his debut novel, which combines the measured culling of language with the headlong propulsion of chance. Nominally a thriller, the book begins with the discovery of a dying man in a park, who claims that his stabbing is linked to a terrorist conspiracy, and it leads to a labyrinthine country manse retrofitted as a "verisylum" for ...

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