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Darkness at Noon

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Darkness at Noon
Communists accused of having betrayed party principles are imprisoned, tortured, and executed. [Br. Lit.: Weiss, 117]

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Seemingly sensitive to the depredations of the Orwellian world of Women's Centers and intrusive, careerist power, Prose's novel even aspires to being a Darkness at Noon for our times.
One is left uneasy, too, by her few references to important books, and a description of Koestler's Darkness at Noon as being about "Soviet cruelty " simply raises doubts as to whether she has ever read it.
The smoke shrouded many towns in darkness at noon and exposed 20 million people across Southeast Asia to harmful smoke-borne pollutants for months.
 
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