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Cordelia and Other Stories - Françoise Maillet-Joris
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"Writing with the keen insight of a psychologist, Françoise Maillet-Joris explores in these twelve stories the minds and actions of those fragile, self-flattering, complicated animals called humans. Precisely and gracefully, she eviscerates their pretenses like an expert fisherman gutting his catch, or examines their catch with the calm determination of a mother cleaning the skinned knee of a beloved but clumsy child. Though few win her commendation, all are granted her understanding..."
(E.B., p. 97)