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XXL Don't An Epic Make

The novel lurches fitfully from one episode to the other, reducing tragic history to a two-dimensional farce.

XXL Don't An Epic Make
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Yet, the novel lurches fitfully from one episode to the other, reducing tragic history to a two-dimensional farce. Saraf may have done better to reduce the book by half, centring it around one event. But he seemed too intent on producing an epic. Unfortunately, size isn’t an epic’s only requirement.

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