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There is contemporary fiction about addiction, and then there is Paradise, the fifth novel from A. L. Kennedy, which stands out for its bitter wit, its painful truth-telling, and the narcotic quality of its author’s limber, serpentine prose
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Unless you’re a Hornby completist driven to paroxysms over the man’s every quotidian observance, get ready to throw the book at the wall more than once: at the twee (titular) references to the Believer’ brass, at a gratuitous excerpt from Great Expectations,’ and at Hornby’s grousing about having too few chances to read

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