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James Salter Reads Reynolds Price

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Reynolds Price's Story of Crawford Langley

Crawford Langley was 12 years old and still a child, but the first traits of manhood were on him. His mother left in an instant, no warning of pain so far as they knew. Crawford's father stuck with Ford, since that had been his own father's name. The cook fawned school, and Crawford was home on his bike in ten minutes.

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