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Her first, Was She Pretty?
Leanne Shapton discusses the feelings of raging jealousy that inspired her latest book, "Was She Pretty?" "All-night roof parties"; "American Spirits"; "artisanal tattoos"; "ascots".
If only the girlfriends in "Was She Pretty?" displayed a fraction of the guts and verve of Daphne du Maurier's anonymous heroine.
In "Was She Pretty?" these words might as well be in Swahili, as no girlfriend appears to have heard of them.
In Turned Out Nice Again (Profile, March), the world's greatest nature writer, Richard Mabey, will burrow into our obsession with the weather, from fog-mirages to moonbows, from storm migraines to SAD; and in Was She Pretty?
It ties together two of her central preoccupations: the idea that possessions and objects might retain an imprint or an echo of their owners, as explored in 2009's Important Artifacts…, and the ways in which we're "haunted" by ex-lovers and their ex-lovers, which animated 2006's Was She Pretty?
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