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Spare, grave, prestige and contemplative.
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Joseph McElroy
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 152
- Publisher
- Carroll & Graf, Knopf
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780394571966
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First sentence
“The woman holding, then handing over the letter to this poised, dumbfounded fifteen-year-old: is the letter also hers?”
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