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David Rabe Reads John Updike

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Faucet's Past and Interplay With Past and Present

David Bianculli: The prose is so nuanced and flexible that he kind of creates a story where there might not apparently be one. In this particular story, I remember a lot of things that kind of resonate from what I was growing up and visiting the elder women of my family. And in her, her, I think she refers to her husband as left. But there's something, I don't think it's ever clarified. Maybe he just had enough.

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