
James Salter Reads Reynolds Price
The New Yorker: Fiction
The Unstable Portrait of a Father
There's something for me, or I think for everyone, very strange about the portrait of the father in this story. He starts off in this kind of weirdly emasculated form. And he's Crawford talks about him as a boy who's shakier than me and someone that he tries to protect. Then thinks shift. For all you fear your father, when you're a kid, you may love him deeply at the same time.
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