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An Unfortunate Woman (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

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The novel is presented as a diary of daily entries which are soon broken by lost days and months and which the protagonist describes as the “route of a calendar map following one man’s existence during a few months period of time.” The protagonist is, if nothing else, incurably peripatetic, jumping among cities, states, countries, and a variety of homes and apartments. Beginning in January and extending to June, 1982, he wanders between locations, friends, and a disjointed series of experiences, only to arrive at a seeming still point: watching a sunset and scribbling in his...

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