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Home / Eve Shelnutt’s The Love Child

Eve Shelnutt’s The Love Child

by Fred Chappell
Issue #14
Fall 1978
I too have favorite candidates for whatever literature of the 1970's ought to survive. The poems of Amon Liner and James Applewhite ought to last on, and Marguerite Yourcenar's novel The Abyss and Mary Lee Settle's Blood Tie, and the...

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