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Dr. Samuel Johnson observed that everyone's life is a subject worthy of the biographer's art. Accused by a former girlfriend of being unable to empathize, the narrator of Kiss & Tell takes Johnson's idea to heart and decides to write about the next person who walks into his life. He... read more
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“Though she adhered to no faith, Isabel trusted in a religious distribution of good and evil.”
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“Humbled, I fell silent.”
Dr. Samuel Johnson
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When historians come to narrate the second half of the twentieth century, it is unlikely that they will pause for long to consider the arrival in the world of a blood-clotted four and half pound infant bearing the name of Isabel Jane Rogers, daughter of Lavinia and Christopher Rogers, shortly after midnight on the 24th of January 1968 in University College Hospital, London.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Alain de Botton (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 823.914
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