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    "annotation": "<p><span>Edmund Carr is at sea in more ways than one. An eminent journalist, he has recently discovered he has only a short time to live. Leaving his job, he takes passage on a cruise ship where he knows that Laura, the beautiful and intelligent widow whom he secretly admires, will be a fellow passenger. Exhilarated by the remote vista of exotic islands never to be visited and his conversations with Laura, Edmund finds himself reexamining all he has come to value.&nbsp;</span><em>No Signposts in the Sea</em><span>&nbsp;is Vita Sackville&ndash;West&rsquo;s last novel&mdash;a haunting, elegiac tale of mature love.</span></p>",
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