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Modern American Memoirs

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by Annie Dillard


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  About the Authors

  ANNIE DILLARD’s most recent books are The Living, a novel, and Mornings Like This, found poems. She lives in Middletown, Connecticut.

  CORT CONLEY lives in Idaho, where he was the director of the University of Idaho Press, writes about local history, and works as a guide on the River of No Return.

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  Books by Annie Dillard

  Modern American Memoirs

  The Annie Dillard Reader

  Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

  The Maytrees

  For the Time Being

  Mornings Like This

  The Living

  The Writing Life

  An American Childhood

  Encounters with Chinese Writers

  Teaching a Stone to Talk

  Living by Fiction

  Holy the Firm

  Copyright

  MODERN AMERICAN MEMOIRS. Copyright © 2007 by Annie Dillard and Cort Conley. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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  * Mr. Matthew Bruccoli, another Bronx drugstore child, has written to say that he remembers with certainty that Mr. Jaffe did not smoke. In my memory the cigar is somehow there, so I leave it.

  * Cause for Wonder, 1963.

  * Cause for Wonder.

  * Cause for Wonder.

 

 

 
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