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A Fortunate Age
by Joanna SmithRakoff.
Scribner, 399 pp., $26, April 2009,978 1 4165 9077 4 Show More
by Joanna SmithRakoff.
Scribner, 399 pp., $26, April 2009,
“... ends: it is also the place where tragedy begins. The wedding of Lil Roth, the opening act of Joanna SmithRakoff’s A Fortunate Age, is followed by a lame attempt at spousal murder-by-scissors, a brief stay in a Manhattan mental institution, and Lil’s freak death after a bad case of flu. Lil hadn’t even ... ”
