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Ben Marcus Reads Kazuo Ishiguro

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

Is It Time for You to Stop and Turn Around?

"I've often wondered how it would have been if we'd met just a few years later. I really was something to be reckoned with by then." "If Wendy's expecting me to say all the things I used to all those years ago, well, she's going to be in for a disappointment," says Roger Button as he recalls his old school days. 'When you last saw me, at school I mean, I suppose I was a rather feeble specimen... But that all changed when I got to fourteen and fifteen'

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