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Originally Posted by issybird
I did not like her tic of using italics rather than quotes. I infer that it was to demonstrate the essential inarticulateness of the protagonist and his wife, but it drew attention to itself, again, as if she didn't trust her story enough to show itself. Ultimately, Grenville's not a good enough writer to take liberties with standard punctuation.
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School-assigned paper editions of The Secret River don't use italics in place of quotation marks. I wouldn't have enjoyed it nearly as much if they did! How odd, I wonder why there's a difference between editions.