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Long, but worth it. Google Morris and you will get Wallpaper, Wallpaper, Wallpaper, Wallpaper, Wallpaper, Wallpaper,... But there is sooo much more to him which seems almost forgotten now, his writing, his poetry, his idealism, his socialism, his phenomenal influence on the age, on the social experiments, the communes, the back to the land movements, the craft revivals, the hippies... It's a fat book. Skim through the early life is my advice.

This was an impulse buy, and boy! was it worth it. I devoured it! I was initially attracted by the chapter titles which were named after famous books. It also cited her experiences as though she were writing an essay. Granted, the protagonist doesn't actually spend enough time reading to make her erudition believable. But she makes very clever observations of her seemingly normal teenage life. I'm looking forward to this emerging author's next work. An excerpt of her great similes, picked more or less at random: "Words were in my throat-- advice, council, some pithy line from a screwball comedy-- but they were grinding together, disappearing fast like celery in a sink disposal." Isn't that great?