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3⭐. A collection of short stories in the backwoods of Appalachia. I'm unsure if I will read more of the author. After some stories I thought I might; after other stories I said I wouldn't.

"Not a one on this hillside finished high school."

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Just started The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store on audio today and still reading The Vaster Wilds in print.

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Always one of each going at all times. Just started The Last Lifeboat audio.

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I too , read the introduction tonight. Auchincloss writes too about upper crust NY, but of course, more contemporary 1950s - 60s ? I think. Glad to be joining in the #WhartonBuddyRead

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I read the introduction this morning and very much enjoyed it.

This was my first book i read this year, finished a month ago but haven‘t been posting on Litsy. Sorry all. Faulkner‘s 1st, from 1926. American soldiers returning home to small town Georgia, to wives, fiancés, hopes and consequence. It‘s an odd book, faulkner putting in impressionists touches, toying a little with the rules of prose. Maybe inconsequential, maybe romantic, sex charged or thoughtful. I liked this problem piece, anyway.

During a trip to Israel, in 1984, Roth took his friend David Plante---a gay, gentile writer---to the Orthodox quarter of Jerusalem, Me She'arim, where the two stood on a corner watching Hasidim milling about in their black coats and hats, the boys with their heads shorn except for long side curls.

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The other book I started this morning. William Faulkner is a theme for me this year. This is his first novel, from 1926.