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Impotent Revenge

Nicole Flattery: Patrick deWitt’s Dioramas, 25 April 2024

The Librarianist 
by Patrick deWitt.
Bloomsbury, 342 pp., £9.99, April, 978 1 5266 4692 7
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... Patrick deWitt​ is the sort of writer you imagine checking his emails on an old desktop computer in the library. His five deceptively simple novels suggest pleasant, old-fashioned things. They hinge on traditional plot devices – misunderstandings, a letter delivered or undelivered, a chance meeting. There is no modern technology here ...

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