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9 Apr 2015: himself eventually said 'Tears, idle tears' was about 'the passion of the past' and 'the yearning that young people occasionally experience for that which seems to have passed away from them ... about people: do you find this a useful way to think about

9 Apr 2015: Encountering literary writing in this format emphasises its social character in a way that the single-author collection, or the course-based syllabus in which many people read poetry, does not. ... In the U.K., people hear American voices all the time,

9 Apr 2015: It is a typical Irving story, in that it is strange, but grand, taking in a whole life, shattering events, and many people's stories. ... It's the kind of novel about which people sometimes say: 'I've always wanted to read it'.