Re: RARA-AVIS: Vian and America

From: jacquesdebierue (jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com)
Date: 09 Dec 2008

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    I would like to point out that Patricia Highsmith partly lost her ear for US idiom. It is very noticeable in some of her works. There are some sentences there that would never be uttered by a native. This is delicate stuff.

    Best,

    mrt

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