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James Salter Reads Reynolds Price

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Importance of Faith in the Story of Crawford

There's also the notion of faith and religion very much throughout the story, I think. There's an unearthly light coming from it, a door that's never closed. Then he opens the door and there's his father in his blue pajamas talking to a vision - but Crawford doesn't know if his father saw any of this. "I have a feeling Crawford, the young boy's line in bed in his room finally, and he wakes, he comes to his father's room"

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