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In this richly nuanced portrait of Mark Twain
but when she looks up and sees his piercing green gaze directly on her
or is Greg's life destined to be just another hard-luck story
The first book from the legendary New Yorker writer John McPhee
Atavists: Stories giving readers key clues aboutThe word atavism, coined by a botanist and popularized by a criminologist, refers to the resurfacing of a primitive evolutionary trait or urge in a modern being. This inventive collection from Lydia Millet offers overlapping tales of urges ranging from rage to jealousy to yearning a fluent triumph of storytelling, rich in ideas and emotions both petty and grand. The titular atavists include an underachieving, bewildered young bartender; a middle aged