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David Rabe Reads John Updike

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Is Wilma Anna Amelfloss a Cautionary Tale?

Fawcett feels responsible for everybody's loneliness except Wilma Annas. We don't know a thing about how she actually lived her life. In a sense, she's sort of an embodiment of the other side of the street. She's sort of the path not taken. And yet she has that glow of a wonder in his mind when he was young.

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