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And briony will have committed a dreadful crime, the guilt for which will color her entire life. The gothic in contemporary british trauma fiction ashlee joyce. He has been shortlisted for the man booker prize for fiction numerous times, winning the. Woolf, virginia woolf miscellany, 64, fallwinter 2003.
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