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e me verymuch--it's one of those names, like Pelkey or Bowie or Toothaker, thatyou kept coming across if you lived down here. Frank might interrupt that process. I have published other novels since then--a paradox Ican explain--but I don't think there'll be a Michael Noonan novel on anylist in the foreseeable future. Gritty snow was driving hard down Sixth Avenue almost wiping the L out of sight.

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