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• n  someone who takes notice
  a careful noticer of details
• n  someone who gives formal notice

• Black is a powerfully atmospheric writer--he is, after all, John Banville--and a champion noticer of details like a "flock of lacquered, dark brown birds" and the tanned ankles of .

Quotes

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• Paul Theroux in San Diego Union Tribune
  As an unrepentant alien, he is a brilliant noticer of American traits and contradictions,Theroux said in a telephone interview. "When Raban notices ways in which people in public life become lazy and neglectful, he goads them in the most...