
Joseph O'Neill Reads Nadine Gordimer
The New Yorker: Fiction
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Gradwell's Displacement
The story basically believes in this possibility which is that Gradwell is not as kind of realized as a human as he might be. He stops even going to the post office, you know, he has her buy him a stamp every time he wants to mail a letter and he, and she puts his money in his, in his post office account for him. It's all kind of every little scrap of agency has been removed from him. Even though in a sense, Mrs. Morgan, that's not her wish. This is a perfectly decent couple. These are the nice kind of whites in Africa. These are liberals. They go to Europe and they're all the indicia of liberalism are
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