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Article: Dumas Fever.(Media&Society)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- November 17, 2003
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Byline: NYO Staff
26 October 2003
I leave the city, traveling northward by train to the hamlet of White Plains, N.Y., where I hope to borrow a few bucks from an old college pal. After he fails to show at the appointed street corner, I find myself at a bookstore curiously named Borders. Naturally, I gravitate toward the "D" shelves. No, it's not for DeLillo, Duras or Dybek, but for that greatest of storytelling geniuses: Dumas, Alexandre, pere not fils.
Not bad! I count, let's see, six, seven, eight, nine copies of novels pumped out by this great author of France, now entombed in that nation's pantheon. And, oh! Here we have the superior Robin ...