Notes from Childhood Thijs van Spaandonk deftly playing different people and

deftly playing different people and different interests against each other the better

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Notes from Childhood Thijs van Spaandonk deftly playing different people andA series of luminous vignettes describe the childhood of Argentinas rediscovered modernist writer. Self contained, interconnected fragments begin with her familys departure to Mendoza in 1910 and end with their return to Buenos Aires and the death of her father in 1915. Langes notes tell intimate, half understood stories from the seemingly peaceful realm of childhood, a realm inhabited by an eccentric narrator searching for clues on womanhood and her