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From the author of The Springs of Affection comes a second and final collection-20 masterly short stories from the glory days of The New Yorker. "Reading Maeve Brennan is like watching a master jeweler construct a ticking watch from an array of tiny, inanimate parts." -Linda Barrett... read more

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Herbert's Retreat is a snug community of forty or so houses that cluster together on the east bank of the Hudson thirty miles above New York City.

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  1. Maeve Brennan (Author)
 

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