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Kevin Barry Reads V. S. Pritchett

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Is She Only Unique When She's With People Who Are Married?

She's drawn to spending time with couples because they make her feel her singularity. And then she doesn't like being around yound single men, because they try to put an end to her particularity. I think it's one of the things that moves us about the story, because we fear for her immediately. She maybe is going to be drawn away from her bohemian, creative ambition and be brought into this whole kind of bourgeois, married world. But at the same seems to really want to have half a taste of at a slight angle to it.

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