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Closure is deferred perpetually, but theres hope yet for the hollow, superficial, lacking, fragmented postmodern subject. Essentially, these three novellas are detective stories with filmnoir atmosphere, but the themes auster tackles go beyond those of your standard spy novel. The stories are not independent of one another and have. A new jersey man leads four parallel lives in austers wearying bildungsroman published.
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