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John Gresham, Waterloo, Merseyside What is the most unflattering description of a town in literature?
The description of a town house at 47 West 92nd Street cites "original brass knobs" on doors.
The novel begins as every McCullers novel begins — with a description of a town that is soon to be changed forever: An army post in peacetime is a dull place.
In these austere times, it won't only be residents of Port Talbot who recognise the description of "a town with low self-esteem" where it "felt like there was little going on".
Inspired by a dwarf McCullers had seen at a bar in Brooklyn Heights, "The Ballad of the Sad Café" begins (again) with a description of a town: The town itself is dreary.... [It] is lonesome, sad, and like a place that is far off and estranged from all other places in the world..
Inspired by a dwarf McCullers had seen at a bar in Brooklyn Heights, "The Ballad of the Sad Café" begins (again) with a description of a town: The town itself is dreary.... [It] is lonesome, sad, and like a place that is far off and estranged from all other places in the world...
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He decided, that, among the deletions, it was a good idea to include the numerous references to & descriptions of a town called Makka.
Two years later he published a novel set in Pamplona, and from that moment on his letter's description of a sleepy town would never hold true again.
The description of a $5 million town house on West 90th Street notes that "under the historic side stoop there is a sealed storage room with an arched half-moon-shaped window facing the street".
Clooney gives no sign of resentment now — instead, there's a romantic description of a small-town high school, in Augusta, Kentucky, and vacation time spent hanging around his father's TV studio.
As we got closer to Rye the landscape started looking like the marshes around Grebe, so I knew we were there — a very odd feeling to recognize a place I'd never been to from novelistic descriptions of a fictional town.
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