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" &amp;quot;The Towers of Trebizond, Rose Macaulay&amp;#039;s last novel is a dense, conflicted book about an English travel writer wandering through the Middle East in the `50s. I love the thrill up the back of the neck when you realize that there is another story under the amusing surface, buried beneath the farce and the travelogue: a painful meditation on love, faith, doubt, and unending guilt. I was 22 when I discovered it on the shelves of a remainder bookstore in Charleston, South Carolina, and knew it for a treasure right away. Here&amp;#039;s Aunt Dot on the hard core of life: &amp;#039;...love your friends and like your neighbors, be just, be extravagantly generous, be honest, be tolerant, have courage, have compassion, use your wits and your imagination, understand the world you live in and be on terms with it, don&amp;#039;t dramatize and dream and escape. Anyhow, that seems to me to be the pattern, so far as we can make it out here.&amp;#039; I keep trying to live like that.&amp;quot; Marina&amp;#039;s Endicott&amp;#039;s latest novel, Good To A Fault, is out now.   Photo: Sean Dennie "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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