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Winner of the Columbia University Lionel Trilling Award . Robert Murphy was in the prime of his career as an anthropologist when he felt the first symptom of a malady that would ultimately take him on an odyssey stranger than any field trip to the Amazon: a tumor of the spinal cord that... read more
First Sentence
There is a halcyon period in the life of the middle-class American male that comes at some time between the realization of his ambitions and the start of serious physical decline.
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- Robert Francis Murphy (Author)
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