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Let the Old Dead Make Room for the New Dead

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A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen years earlier. Neither of them doubts that the day will end in disgust, but for one intimate moment each finds a way to overcome mortality.

Written in 1969, before Milan Kundera was known to English-speaking readers, this story renders male and female characters painful equals, and prompted Philip Roth to admire its 'detached Chekhovian tenderness'.

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9780571356904
Paperback, 2nd Edition
ISBN13: 9780571356904
Faber and Faber, 2019

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