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This was a lovely book. As has been mentioned by many, the fact that this book disappeared for many years until NYRB reissued it, is surprising. I found it beautifully written and the structure somewhat unique in that it was not a flow of events but sort of snippets of a young man's life from about two years old into his early twenties. "Totempole" reads like a modern classic - and hopefully this reissue will make it one!
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