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The Lonely Sea: Collected Short Stories
Her Benny
Vedere din Parfumerie
Mysticism and Logic (Western Philosophy)
The Analects of Confucious
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
Does Anything Eat Wasps?: And 101 Other Unsettling, Witty Answers to Questions You Never Thought You Wanted to Ask
Mutual Aid
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
The Brothers Karamazov
A Separate Peace
All the stars are really for a single sentence, which I read in a moment of blissful cognitive dissonance more than 20 years ago. It was the extraordinary effect of that sentence - its timing, not its consequences -- which made the book unforgettable. No matter how manly Gene's one-sentence act may have seemed to him, he wasn't taking the place of his better self; he was destroying it. And still he was proud of what he'd become. Is that what comes of a culture where hierarchy and status becomes militant, at Phillips Exeter and after?
