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Taking a distinctively aesthetic approach to the genre of realist short fiction, Kerry McSweeney clusters the work of five masters--Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, and Raymond Carver--to offer a poetics of the form for students and scholars. At the center of... read more

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In chapter 12 of Anton Chekhov's novella Three Years, Yulia Sergeyeva, an unhappily married young woman, attends a Moscow art exhibition.

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  1. Kerry McSweeney (Author)
 

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