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Lovelace s use of ethnic dialogue, which in other works can be difficult to read, not only flowed exceptionally well, but brought an added level of. The wine of astonishment by lovelace earl abebooks. It is an option that some writers have used for shorter fictionshort stories, or passages within novels, for example v. In evoking the village of bonasse, the spiritual baptist church, and its struggles for spiritual survival, earl lovelace taps into the notion of polyrhythm.
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