Sublime

Flanagan.

That Thomas had worked for the Chronicle since 1976 was easily established, as was the fact that he’d published three brief novels since that date. Out of a sense of delicacy Carleton never mentioned that he owned all three of these, and found them elegant and elliptical, couched in prose that had the cadence of the King James Bible, and concerned

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but there was also a selection of the books the store’s staff decided were worth a closer look, a collective act of curation.

“But we are the good guys. Aren’t we, Uncle?” “I hope so. I hope we are.”