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A Silver Dish (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)

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After his father's death, Woody Selbst feels a yawning emptiness in his life. At the age of sixty, he is deeply disturbed by questions about the meanings of life and death. In his period of mourning, he recalls a trip to the White Nile, where he had seen a buffalo calf being seized by a crocodile while the parent buffalo looked on without understanding what was happening. Their brute grief now helps him to cope with his own.

As Woody reflects on his own life, his father's, and their unusual relationship, the story reveals the contours of Woody's imagination and...

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