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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Guardian Artangel Books podcast: Colm Tóibín in A Room For London

In the final dispatch from A Room for London – an installation in the shape of the boat in Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness – Colm Tóibín leafs through a log book compiled by visitors over the year, and reads a short story written during his four days aboard the boat.

It follows Conrad's narrator, Marlow, into his old age where the old sailor tells a rather different story to the one he would once have had us believe ...

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