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John Dufresne's glorious new novel is a tragicomedy about love and death that highlights the absurdities of everyday life and in the same breath reveals heart-wrenching truths. The comedy is what makes the tragedy bearable, what prevents us, as readers, from finally turning away from the... read more

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THE DAY I FINISHED MY BEST STORY YET-ABOUT A social WORKER WHOSE CHILD gets Lyme disease, slips into a coma, suffers brain damage, becomes a burden to his father-after I typed it, retyped it, and mailed it off to the Timber Wolf Review, my wife, Martha, came home from work and, just like that, asked me to leave our apartment forever.

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  1. John Dufresne (Author)
 

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