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Lodge looks soberly at death's 'long silence'

DAVID LODGE DAVID LODGE (MIKE COCKETT)
By John Gregory Brown
October 19, 2008

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Deaf Sentence By David Lodge Viking, 294 pp., $25.95 What linguistics professor Desmond Bates hears: "I do mend sherry. Crap and sargasso pained there." What was actually said to him: I do recommend Céret. Braque and Picasso painted there. (Full article: 765 words)

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