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The Man with the Dagger
Russell Hoban
‘I thought the story would be the most likely place to look for Dahlmann, so I went there.’
After the War
Patrick French
‘My antipathy to military culture started early and it wasn't helped by living in a garrison town.’
Room After Room
Jonathan Safran Foer
‘Her heart is kept in a room with a very expensive security system.’
The Hole
Romesh Gunesekera
'I let the tears roll down to the sides of my mouth, and licked them to harden my insides. I wanted to cry gushingly, but I couldn't.'
In Utah There Are Mountains Too
Federico Falco
‘No one had ever spoken her name in a foreign language.’
The Chinese Lesson
A. M. Homes
‘I am thinking about Susan, about what it means to be married to someone I know nothing about.’
Local Man has Sex with Corpse
Allan Gurganus
‘RALEIGH–A former funeral home employee charged with having sex with a body he was transporting pleaded guilty Wednesday after a psychiatrist testified that the man had sexual problems and that the incident probably was an isolated one.’
