A string of small epiphanies
From Robinson, stories that get at emotional truths
A Perfect Stranger and Other Stories By Roxana Robinson Random House, 235 pp., $23.95 Roxana Robinson is a welcome practitioner of old-fashioned irony, the sort that prevailed until postmodern nihilism got ahold of the term and turned it into something weary and chic. By irony I mean what Jane Austen meant and what Robinson delivers: a central incongruity between the ... (Full article: 973 words)
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