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Absolutely Revolting
Fiction

After the Heat

Swallowing Clouds by Lillian Ng

by Terri-ann White •
December 1997–January 1998, no. 197

Swallowing Clouds by Lillian Ng

Penguin, $19.95pb, 305pp

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The funny ways we have of writing about sex and how rarely it really works. The memory of how it feels, what is involved, what it means. How strenuously we, as writers and as people who have done it and then talk or write about it, try to capture the movement and intensities we remember. And how ludicrously it so often comes out at that second division, once removed from the flesh and heat.

 


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Swallowing Clouds by Lillian Ng

Penguin, $19.95pb, 305pp

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.

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