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Earnest, classical in form, grave and spare.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Alice McDermott
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 183
- Publisher
- Perennial Library, Hamilton, Perennial
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780385333306
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“THAT NIGHT when he came to claim her, he stood on the short lawn before her house, his knees bent, his fists driven into his thighs, and bellowed her name with such passion that even the friends who surrounded him, who had come to support him, to drag her from the house, to murder her family if they had to, let the chains they carried go limp in their hands.”
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