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`A raging, wounded inner self'

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20070204
Author:"In the Shadow of Memory." His novel "Patient 002" is due out in April.; Floyd Skloot received the 2004 PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction for his memoir; Floyd Skloot

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Thomas Hardy

By Claire Tomalin

Penguin, 486 pp., illustrated, $35

Claire Tomalin is a widely admired, versatile literary biographer. She has written lives of the diarist Samuel Pepys, novelist Jane Austen, and short-story writer Katherine Mansfield. Drawn to people with hidden stories and those who transgress cultural boundaries, Tomalin has written about Mary Wollstonecraft, Shelley, and King William IV's mistress Dora Jordan.

Now, in her eighth biography, Tomalin takes on Thomas Hardy (1840- 1928), author of such classic novels as "The Return of the Native" and "Tess of the ...

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