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COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN CLC, VOLUME 172, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Challener, Daniel D. From Stories of Resilience in Childhood: The Narratives of Maya Angelou, Maxine Hong Kingston, Richard Rodriguez, John Edgar Wideman, and Tobias Wolff. Garland Publishing, Inc., 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Daniel

D. Challener. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Hannah, James. From Tobias Wolff: A Study of the Short Fiction. Twayne Publishers, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Twayne Publishers. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

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