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Originally Posted by issybird
I read these decades ago as they came out in a new cheap paperback edition. I started a reread a while back, but got distracted midway. I think now I'd want to restart at the beginning; for all that it's published as 12 discrete books, everyone knows it's really one (very long) novel.
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Very true - each book contains 4 long chapters, so that the entire series is in reality a novel comprised of 48 chapters.
As I continue my re-read, I'm impressed, and surprised, with Powell's ability to weave characters in and out of the narrator's experiences, and the overall time line of the series. It truly is a dance akin to those elaborate reels, etc. of yore in which partners are exchanged and reunited as the dance progresses.