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Sep 29, 2010
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Yet another book from my youth that I have revisited. I found it even more enchanting than long ago, with Ethan Allen Hawley's whimsy, his wife Mary's tolerance and strength, and the richness of the dull little town. There's even a bit of magic, or mysticism, as well as conflict, love, and nobility.
On my first reading, not quite fifty years ago, I was a grocery clerk, although mine was a major supermarket rather than a little store like Ethan's place of employment. The Winter of Our Discontent b ...more
On my first reading, not quite fifty years ago, I was a grocery clerk, although mine was a major supermarket rather than a little store like Ethan's place of employment. The Winter of Our Discontent b ...more
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