ELVIRA HANCOCK
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Pithy aphorisms
Occasional flashes of bitter wit strike home in the twin novellas of Bahaa Abdel-Meguid: the first, and suggestively more sober, Saint Theresa followed by the no less abstemious so to speak, Sleeping with Strangers . Both tales are at once simultaneously weird and wonderful with the evocatively religious element curiously espied.
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