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... working as appraisers of stolen goods for burglars ( BLACK FRIDAY ) , once - famous crooners or concert performers reduced by fate and their own innate disabilities to streetcorner bums or barroom piano players 48 DIFFICULT LIVES.
... working as appraisers of stolen goods for burglars ( BLACK FRIDAY ) , once - famous crooners or concert performers reduced by fate and their own innate disabilities to streetcorner bums or barroom piano players 48 DIFFICULT LIVES.
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... streetcorner hack writer , could tell his own story and ply his trade at the same time . " And tell it he did , mapping out a zone in American fiction specifically his , forging novels instantly recognizable for their charged style as ...
... streetcorner hack writer , could tell his own story and ply his trade at the same time . " And tell it he did , mapping out a zone in American fiction specifically his , forging novels instantly recognizable for their charged style as ...
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... streetcorner wondering where their next drink will come from . One of them , called Whitey ( " The curved glass showed him a miniature of himself , a little man lost in the emptiness of a drained bottle " ) , wanders off only to return ...
... streetcorner wondering where their next drink will come from . One of them , called Whitey ( " The curved glass showed him a miniature of himself , a little man lost in the emptiness of a drained bottle " ) , wanders off only to return ...
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