The tradition of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man informs the arc of this novella and some of the other nine pieces. Set in 1960 Manhattan, the novella's tragic elements are mitigated by a comic style as the protagonist tries, and generally succeeds, in escaping his past.
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