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Guilty pleasures that fail to satisfy: Cleanness, by Garth Greenwell, reviewed

25 April 2020

9:00 AM

25 April 2020

9:00 AM

Cleanness Garth Greenwell

Picador, pp.223, 14.99

In Henry and June, Anaïs Nin asks her cousin Eduardo if one can be freed of a desire by experiencing it. ‘No,’ he says. ‘The life of freed instincts is composed of layers. The first layer leads to the second, the second to the third and so on. It leads ultimately to abnormal pleasures.’

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