“I can't see that Danish episode as an adventure, or a crisis survived, or a serious quest for anything definable. It was just another happening like today's luncheon, something I got into an...”
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The life of literary agent Joe Alston is interrupted by a postcard that takes him back twenty years to postwar Denmark where a search for his mother's heritage had led to the uncovering of Nazi horrors
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Wallace Earle Stegner
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“I can't see that Danish episode as an adventure, or a crisis survived, or a serious quest for anything definable. It was just another happening like today's luncheon, something I got into an...”
“Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”
“The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”