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Tree of Smoke

by Denis Johnson

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Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

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She may have known for some time; even Ellen may have known, only probably to Ellen at that time absence was not a qualitative state, absence into ignominy or into oblivion being identical, and so it may not have occurred to Ellen either to ...more

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Jesus' Son

by Denis Johnson

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