Word: angelicaã
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...presented, his or her guilt called into question, and then never quite absolved. The heart of the novel is a legitimate mystery about the frustration of not knowing, of producing (whether necessary or not) an unanswerable question that seeks resolution, and this is what gives “Angelica?? its momentum and energy. But that momentum leads only to frustration. At the end, Phillips hands the reader a non-resolution in which a markedly older and less enchanting Angelica openly (and annoyingly) vacillates between the several possible explanations to the mystery. The novel flattens out to become everything...
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