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"Written in the years following the sudden death of Roubaud's wife, Some Thing Black is a profound and moving transcription of loss, mourning, grief, and the attempts to face honestly and live with the consequences of death, the ever-present "not-there-ness" of the person who was/is loved."--BOOK JACKET.
First publish date: 1990
Authors: Jacques Roubaud
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