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Australian novelist Richard Flanagan. EPA
Australian novelist Richard Flanagan. EPARichard Flanagan tells instead of shows in ‘First Person’
The 2014 Man Booker winner tries to capture an extraordinary experience in his life, but something has been lost in turning this memoir into fiction
Lucy Scholes
November 13, 2017