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FOREWORD
Perhaps the best way to introduce this
novel—which on my third reading of it
astounds me even more than the first—is
to tell of my first encounter with it. While
I was teaching at Loyola in 1976 I began
to get telephone calls from a lady
unknown to me. What she proposed was
preposterous. It was not that she had
written a couple of chapters of a novel and
wanted to get into my class. It was that
her son, who was dead, had written an
entire novel during the early sixties, a big
novel, and she wanted me to read it. Why
would I want to do that? I asked her.
Because it is a great novel, she said.
Over the years I have become very good
at getting out of things I don’t want to do.
And if ever there was something I didn’t want
to do, this was surely it: to deal with the
mother of a dead novelist and, worst of all,
to have to read a 0manuscript that she said
was great, and that, as it turned out, was a
badly smeared, scarcely readable carbon.
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