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The Love of Literature ?
Can people suggest any books in which the author uses vivid, brilliant descriptive prose ?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I know it sounds a bit harcore, but there's some amazing stuff in D.H. Lawrence. There's a short story called The Prussian Officer, which if you can get hold of it has some of the most powerful descriptions I've ever read.There are descriptions of a man's perceptions of his environment as he get's more and more dehydrated and starts to go nuts - great stuff!
Alternatively there's a novel called The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (who wrote the moomin books) about a little girl and her grandmother living on an island.