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A Year in Reading: Adam O’Fallon Price

The novel I read this year that most stuck with me is ’s . This is the middle child of the New York novels, so-called, bookended by its more famous siblings, and . It is, in some ways, the least distinguished of these books—less comic than , less of an obvious masterpiece than . And yet, in its villainous heroine, Undine Spragg, it captures something

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