Book DescriptionThese stories offer a clear-eyed reckoning with life's contradictions, losses, and consolations: a professor's wife loses her connection to her husband but rediscovers herself; a boy who idolizes his uncle learns about human fallibility; and in the celebrated title novella, a generation of post-war idealists in New York come to terms with a country increasingly divided against itself.
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Book DescriptionThese stories offer a clear-eyed reckoning with life's contradictions, losses, and consolations: a professor's wife loses her connection to her husband but rediscovers herself; a boy who idolizes his uncle learns about human fallibility; and in the celebrated title novella, a generation of post-war idealists in New York come to terms with a country increasingly divided against itself.