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The William Trevor Reader: “Bodily Secrets”

Having only last week praised as a story only , I will now praise “Bodily Secrets” as a story anyone would like to write. By my count it is one of about 10 stories in the that stand as an example of formal perfection. Perhaps it would be worth discussing, in this installment, what it might mean to make that statement, and to do so, I will

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