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There's Room in Joy Division's Expansive Universe for Jon Savage's 'This Searing Light...'

Can Jon Savage's literal book This Searing Light, The Sun and Everything Else close the metaphoric book on Joy Division once and for all?

                                      
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There's Room in Joy Division's Expansive Universe for Jon Savage's 'This Searing Light...'

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