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| | Between the covers | The Arts | The Australian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30) |
 | | No one will hear you over the sound of white wine being poured and tales of steamy stuff between the covers. |
 | | Not always the covers of reading group favourites such as Louis de Berniere's Captain Corelli's Mandolin or Jung Chang's Wild Swans, but of their own lives, the talk (I'm told) inevitably turning to sex, men, relationships, children, work and sex. |
 | | Postmodern ironists might say of book club women that they appreciate abstractly that a book, with its front and back cover, its first page and last, is a model of their desire for completion, wholeness and a comprehensive life. |
| www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,19908810-16947,00.html (1108 words) |
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