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In format and theme her best-known work seems to reflect a condition of restless exile.
Unlike the heavy-handed prostitution theme, her religious conflicts are not prominent enough for her dialogue to carry any weight.
It had a kind of Tuscan Inn theme, her old place.
And although her novels can feel somewhat closed, and tend to repeat themselves in theme, her prose is full of variety.
So far, so routine, but what makes this novel special is the changes the author rings on the werewolf theme: her creation is no slavering, conscienceless beast.
The lost father is a favourite Nesbit theme: her own father died when she was four and in her books she was always trying to get him back.
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But she makes these themes her own.
(Bees and beeswax are recurring themes; her father was a beekeeper in rural Georgia).
And while the portrayal of Tess's disease as a refusal to be human fits the story's themes, her character remains something of an enigma.
Some of Quintana's childhood writings reverberate uncannily with echoes of themes her parents repeatedly explored in their work: a preoccupation with alienation, the abyss and the edge.
This is her serious theme; and her comic one too, both at once.
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