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Maggie was one who marched stalwartly onward while Esther seemed always to be stalling and reviewing her life, ‘making a fresh start’ in a new job, a new course of instruction-graphic design, public relations, a master’ degree programme in math at Columbia School of Education, to qualify her for private school teaching-or, in the cool clinical vocabulary if the era, a new relationship.

Joyce Carol Oates, “Soft Core”