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Half a Life: When too much is enough
November 20, 2012 – 9:52 AM | 2 Comments
<I>Half a Life</I>: When too much is enough

It’s written too well, Half a Life. And that’s understandable. Darin Strauss’s “memoir” — a poor fit, that word, but the closest available — concerns the death of a girl half (his) lifetime ago; Celine …