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Review of Anita Shreve's novel 'Body Surfing':Anita Shreve's drama is a polished performance of nuanced social observation, ersatz romance and cloying tragedy,Partway through the narrative, Sydney Sklar, like me, is left reeling from an unexpected blow. A simple, beautiful sentence like"a lobster making its new shell", then a moment later Shreve produces a minature symphony of word-strangeness:aesthetically subverting.And she brings out in paragrams the secret metonymic chain-with a beautifully constructed referential mode... and the co-prescence of intra textual movements, finally reaches a synthesis.She understands that the world is co-terminous with the logic of her beautiful and captivating prose.