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| | Amazon.com: Kitty and Virgil: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | Bailey, whose first novel, At the Jerusalem, won several British awards and who has been twice shortlisted for the Booker since, is too little known here, as the arrival of the luminous book, his first in seven years, reminds us. |
 | | Bailey's initial United States publication, Gabriel's Lament (1987), traces the life of a young man who is systematically abused by his father and winds up eventually exposing his father's misdeeds in a book. |
 | | Bailey frequently switches between scenes from Virgil's childhood, Kitty's childhood, their time together, visits with Kitty's family, and Virgil's Romanian past as a persecuted poet. |
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