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020			_a9780128007204
037			_cTextbook
040			_beng _cCSL
041			_aeng
084			_aE5:4 N4;Q7 _qCSL
100			_aSmith, Michael B. _9851128
245		0	_aOrganic synthesis
250			_a4th
260			_aLondon, _bAcademic Press: _c2017.
300			_axxii, 1083p. _b: ill.
500			_aSubject Index 1055-1080p.
520			_aJust looking at the first line, the setting is a place that’s threatening to tip over into the unnatural. The uncanny atmosphere is eerily present, like something terrible you can’t look away from, and in fact, want to read more of. Here’s how the description achieves this: The juxtaposition of a tourist-like welcome and the death imagery that follows Very physical descriptions of “unearthed bones” and “a city thrumming” Things are given agency that shouldn’t have agency: the city, dead children Intentions and desires are disconnected from people like bodies without a soul With carefully chosen language and imagery, the blurb transports us to a Buenos Aires that’s teeming with the dead. It’s what ties the short stories together. We don’t need to know about individual characters or plot lines because the setting is described so intentionally, it makes us feel uncomfortable with our own curiosity for this dark place: what ungodly thing is happening in this city?
650			_aPericyclic reactions _9851129
650			_aSynthetic strategies _9851130
650			_aChemistry _9851131
942			_hE5:4 N4;Q7 _cTB _2CC _n0
999			_c1922 _d1922