Top 10 books about silence

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Top 10 books about silence May 21, 2020 9:00:22 GMT amyghost likes this

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Post by Carl LaFong on May 21, 2020 9:00:22 GMT

Not saying anything can be as eloquent as speech, as told by authors ranging from Pat Barker to Carson McCullers and Ian McEwan

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Post by amyghost on May 21, 2020 10:19:31 GMT

I've only read Titus Andronicus and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, but the Richardson and Liptrot volumes sound interesting. I think I might supplant the overpraised McEwan with Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, which contains some of the most eloquently 'silent' chapters I know.

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Top 10 books about silence May 22, 2020 8:44:20 GMT amyghost and Carl LaFong like this

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Post by wickedkittiesmom on May 22, 2020 8:44:20 GMT

I've read The House of Spirits and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, maybe I'll try some of the others. "So many books, so little time" I don't know who said this, I've seen it on t-shirts but it is a true statement.