Jacob's Room

Ranked #57 in Modernism, Ranked #73 in Modernist

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Mona Simpson What would female fiction be without Virginia Woolf? She picks out exactly the right details to reveal the character’s interiorities. (Source)

Alexandra Harris It’s a very ghostly book in that we have a very likable hero and want to get to know him a lot, but he keeps disappearing. (Source)


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