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Kitty & Virgil

By |2018-03-21T18:28:08+01:00February 1st, 2008|Recent Reviews|

By Paul Bailey

Plume Books, 2001. 280 pages.

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itty Crozier’s chance London encounter with Romanian refugee drifter Virgil Florescu blossoms into an improbable but perfectly plausible love affair. Virgil’s marred past, however, circumvents their future. This is a time-machine novel about longing and unfulfilled hopes. Bailey has the uncanny gift of reaching over his shoulder and backward into an Eastern Europe of commanding ghosts. A deeply ambitious and touching book whose vivid Virgil is transcendent.

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