Volume 37, Number 18 · November 22, 1990
On Washington Square
By Elizabeth Hardwick
The James family came from New York State, the father having been born in Albany. Whether they are New Yorkers in the sense of the city is not altogether certain since they fled it early and did not like it much when they came back from time to time. Still the city, its streets, its fluid, inconstant, nerve-wrung landscape had a claim upon Henry's imagination, even if the neglectful civic powers did not properly return the claim.
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