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Lead book review

Books of the year – part one

10 November 2018

9:00 AM

10 November 2018

9:00 AM

Andrew Motion

Short stories seem to fare better in the US than the UK, and among this year’s rich crop, Deborah Eisenberg’s Your Duck is My Duck (Ecco, £20.70) is outstanding.
Everything about Eisenberg’s writing is highly controlled — watchful, well-made — and everything it describes teeters on the verge of chaos or collapse.

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