But They Hushed.
In class a couple weeks ago, when we first read the end of Who Will Run The Frog Hospital? out loud, I thought immediately of the end of Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams. Another brilliant, tight, extraordinary book: 116 pages and close-to one man’s entire life. The first sentence is this: “In the summer of 1917 Robert Grainier took part in an attempt on th…
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