Volume 53, Number 13 · August 10, 2006
Glimpses
By Russell Baker
Let Me Finish
by Roger Angell
Harcourt, 302 pp., $25.00
Let Me Finish puts me in mind of an elderly, rather distinguished-looking man rummaging in a trunk full of old snapshots. It is not clear what he is looking for. Maybe he is not looking for anything at all. Sometimes it is simply pleasurable to visit bygone times. But if absolutely everything must be justified, let us say that he is exploring the mystery of memory.
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