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James Salter Reads Reynolds Price

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

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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