Jan 4, 2010
The unnamed narrator takes Catherine, a neighbor child, on an afternoon outing to visit their friend Philip at his boarding school outside London. Catherine, who is thirteen years old, idolizes both the fifteen-year-old Philip and the narrator, an older woman who lives in a nearby apartment. Catherine borrows a collection of short stories by the Russian Jewish author Isaac Babel to read on the train because she knows that Philip is reading them.
The visit to Philip is a success. The three walk through the school's beautiful playing fields, as Catherine carries...
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