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A FRIENDSHIP THROUGH BOOKS
- The Yale Review
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 103, Number 1, January 2015
- p. 120
- 10.1353/tyr.2015.0090
- Article
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1 2 0 Y A F R I E N D S H I P T H R O U G H B O O K S E L I Z A B E T H S M I T H E R Through books over the years we spoke to each other. One might seek out an explanation for a dissatisfaction she could not quite finger or the other praise like a soaring lark something that had touched her heart. Both hearts were oddly in it, even when we disagreed. Was the plot too thin, the heroine unlikely? Did anything indicate time and its lack of mercy? Are you well? we seemed to be asking each other. How is your life and how are you living it? ...