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FICTION
Courting Disaster (or, Serious in the Fifties)
A complete episode in an unfinished life from a work-in-progress
May
1
1971
Philip Roth
Jean-Paul Goude
Courting Disaster (or, Serious in the Fifties)
Philip Roth
May
1
1971
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FICTION
Courting Disaster (or, Serious in the Fifties)
A complete episode in an unfinished life from a work-in-progress
May
1
1971
Philip Roth
Jean-Paul Goude
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