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Article: Lies of the Saints.
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- Ploughshares
- Article date:
- September 22, 1996
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 Ploughshares, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Stories by Erin McGraw. Chronicle Books, $11.95 paper. Reviewed by Ann Harleman.
"Life puts us in each other's way," one of Erin McGraw's characters tells another. That is the beauty of this first collection: the characters--so real that I hesitate, wanting to use the word "people" instead--engage each other in frequent, intense, and surprising ways. A radio talk show hostess is besieged by calls from her ex-husband, who gradually woos her audience away from her; a young man who believes he's won the lottery dumps his fiancee; the wife of a recovering alcoholic struggles to accept his sobriety, feeling as if she's "been slammed onto dry land after a long storm"; a ...
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... ... windows that open onto their own deep worlds, let us savor them for a moment in all their unresolved, ambiguous beauty, then shut again. Ann Harleman is the author of two story collections, "Happiness" and "Thoreau's Laundry," and
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