Nov 15, 2009
Vance teaches writing at an Indiana university. He has a student named Katie Jay from whom he tries to elicit a particular response by telling his class a story. He instructs them to pay particular attention to the crucial function of his story's narrative point of view. His story goes back to a time ten years earlier when one of his fellow graduate students, Noel Butler, called begging to see him because someone had just tried to kill him. As Vance awaited Noel's arrival, he remembered the circumstances under which he had met Butler and his beautiful wife, Dawn. Noel...
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