The author's long gestated first novel. Laid in are two autograph letters, signed to Morris Lurie. The first, 27 June 1992, re Lurie's reading of this novel and the second, 30 August 1993, after Brodkey's HIV diagnosis, At the moment it's killing me mostly by inches and with boredom and with a kind of inglorious dignity which I suppose is a form of dignity ...
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