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Poison, shadow and farewell is the valedictory volume of javier marias s spy novel whose prose style represents a calcification of the novelists poetic images, lines, phrases, and symbols, all unfolding in slow motion in the pedantic mind of its narrator. Poison, shadow, and farewell by javier marias goodreads. In the last twenty years the spanish novelist javier marias has produced a string of novels bearing a remarkable consistency in tone, all narrated by a solitary, ruminative observer who is obsessed by the untold histories of the people he encounters. Aug 01, 2009 javier marias search for other works by this author on. Poison, shadow and farewell is the valedictory volume of javier mariass spy novel whose prose style represents a calcification of the novelists poetic images. A trilogy complete but with a failure to fulfill the irish times. Editions of poison, shadow, and farewell by javier marias. Poison, shadow and farewell is the valedictory volume of javier mariass spy novel whose prose style represents a calcification of the novelists poetic images, lines, phrases, and symbols, all unfolding in slow motion in the pedantic mind of its narrator.
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