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Joseph O'Neill Reads Nadine Gordimer

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Gradwell Isn't in Extraordinary Condition, You Know?

Mark O'Mara: Gradwell is a vivid example of what happens when your whole life boils down to making enough money just to sort of survive and just to have children. And at least, and at least Gradwell has had the experience of procreation, which the dog hasn't had. But then it's been robbed of him. You know, that last paragraph begins with that amazing line. He becomes one with the with that dog stuck in the yard. It would seem that he couldn't in some way or that he hadn't. Maybe he's. I mean, one doesn't know who knows what went on in that share. They would think he and the and the bit

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