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Returning sam to the sea is hard work, but tim is determined to help. At the almayer inn, a remote shoreline hotel, an artist dips his brush in a cup of ocean water to paint a portrait of the sea. As this wrenching dedication suggests, aitkenhead is an unsparing writer. You always said i should write a book about you, she writes in the dedication to tony.
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