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You are a human animal.

You are a very special breed, or you are the only animal, who can think, who can reason,

who can read.

Hello and welcome to Bookworm. I'm Michael Silverblatt.

Today my guest is Rose Tramaine.

We're here at Downing College in Cambridge.

We're the guests of the British Council,

and we're at the symposium on the contemporary British novel.

And so what you hear are the circumambian sounds of a college dorm room.

Rose Tremaine is the author most recently of the way I found her.

It's being published by Faris Strauss and Giroux.

Her previous books include Sacred Country, Restoration,

the Garden of the Villa Molini and other stories, the swimming pool season, the Colonel's daughter and other stories, and I'm just speaking of those that I know

to have been published in America. Now, the way I found her is one of my favorite kinds of books,

and so I'm speaking entirely as a partisan here

and a recommender of this book.

There are certain books for me that induce enchantment,

and many of them are set in the perilous territory of adolescence these include the grand mon by a l'en fornier catcher in the rye of course

elizabeth bowens the death of the heart and certain writers seem to understand that adolescence with its possibilities of transformation of every kind,

sexual, emotional, is a terror zone where romance and fear and the undiscovered meaning of everything

rival for attention, and so it is for the narrator of this book, Lewis Little.

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