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 Last Seen Wearing - Hillary Waugh
 Last Seen Wearing - Hillary Waugh ... afterwards returning to her room. This is the story of her disapperance.Newest Review: ... numerous occasions throughout the book, is a very old-fashioned novel, written when writers were writers and everyone else ... more ... was stupid or black. Waugh uses conformist language which never explodes out of the pages at you, but does enough to get the job done. Of all the books I have read from this period, Waugh demonstrated the greatest mastery of the language of the time, flexing it on occasion to escape the tightly-bound expectations literate America had at the time. Now re-badged as a cla
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Last Seen Wearing - Hillary Waugh: A skirt, petticoat and ankle socks... (1032 words)
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You know Fifties America? That small town just past Delaware, where everybody lives in wood-panelled houses in the 'burbs, the genial greengrocer doubles up as the doc at weekends, and the swarthy outsider who rides into town on his motorbike is convicted of every unsolved crime in the book in minutes? And you know how you've always thought that this town never really existed, that it was just a Hollywood exaggeration used to reassure America that it is the nicest place to live in the world? Well, it seems we were wrong all along. Fifties America really was like that, and Hillary Waugh's novel, Last Seen Wearing, gives you a fascinating insight into the ... Read the complete review
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