But each time he received an invitation from the Harvard Club to join…he postponed his application for the time when he could do little but rest in the kind of comfortable chair that is to the end of life what a cradle is to the beginning.” Pg 55
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- Author's profession: Novelist
- Nationality: american
- Born: June 28, 1947
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