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relationship with his little daughter Moira is one of the few lovely things in his life—and it is the subject of some of Miss Roland’s most delicate writing. A kindly doctor gradually exposes
Hiliary’s neurosis, but meantime Hiliary has antagonized a bunch of shanty-town roughs, who wreak their revenge on the little girl. Hiliary West is a human and credible study of a literary frustrate, a blood brother to Chekhov's Trigorin."
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Australian mining town. His tender
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