The Nature of Longing
Alyce Miller. W. W. Norton & Company, $18.95 (240pp) ISBN 978-0-393-31379-6
Miller's debut collection of short stories won the Flannery O'Connor Award. (Oct.)
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Reviewed on: 11/20/1995
Genre: Fiction
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