The Magus
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main characters
Nichols, Alison, Julie, Rose, Maurice
Rip's impressions
This is a fast read (most of it), but many scenes are annoyingly repetitious; the denouement is much too long, but the ending itself is orginal and poignant, beautiful, and very well written.
first line
I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which they never rose sufficiently above history to leave, of that monstrous dwarf Queen Victoria.
last lines
(spoiler alert)
A flight of pigeons over the houses; fragments of freedom, hazard, an anagram made flesh. And somewhere the stinging smell of burning leaves.
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