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"Brilliant, haunting, dark, joyous, remarkably compelling...immensely difficult to put down...a master storyteller." THE VILLAGE VOICE A childhood memory re-experienced, a funeral that brings about a family reunion, and the excavation of a swimming pool on the site of an old well, uncover... read more

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First Sentence

SYBILL parks carefully at the curb in front of the hypnotist's house and stares at it for some time without getting out of the car, without even turning off the motor or the air conditioner.

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  1. Lee Smith (Author)
 

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