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By Stephen Minot
the second one crew, “Time in Exile,” makes a speciality of american citizens residing in Europe as political and social exiles. those tales provide a bright glimpse into that international of yankee expatriates who've been compelled to bend either time and position for purposes of judgment of right and wrong or necessity.
The tales within the concluding part, “Time within the American City,” all care for city survival. sometimes comedian, yet regularly critical in subject matter, those tales pay tribute to the range and suppleness of yank urban dwellers. Mike-O returns to Boston for a trip together with his fashionable ex-wife and her new lover; Blair, a U.S. Senator in Washington, copes with a long-absent and hugely autonomous son, Dennis, and struggles to make experience of his creative good fortune in Venice, California.
All 12 tales have seemed in significant periodicals, one being incorporated in either the O. Henry Prize Stories and The top American brief tales collections.
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