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James Salter Reads Reynolds Price

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Crawford's Dreams

I did feel as though there was something going on with the fact that she came back as the girl the father knew and not as the mother Crawford knew. Well, of course, he didn't know her personally because he had not yet reached the final paragraph when he was born. That is to say, he knew her when she was young through photographs and his father and so forth. So I think that's entirely Crawford from then on.

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