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But Heffernan's brilliant study of major writers, mostly novelists and poets, on the brink of the Second World War is both salutary and inspired. It's also compulsive reading. Looking at an unlikely crew that includes Hemingway and Brecht, Auden, Woolf, Waugh and Henry Green, Heffernan shows how the terrifying imminence of war excited and refined the imaginations of these writers.
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