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Review: Robert Karron on Helen DeWitt

Review: Robert Karron on Helen DeWitt

Dec 20, 2022
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Helen DeWitt’s first novel, The Last Samurai, published in 2000 to widespread acclaim, remains as fresh and wondrous as it was twenty-two years ago, perhaps more so, since the intervening years have given us so little that, in scope, audacity, and playfulness, comes close. That novel follows a single mother in London who believes that children need not …

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