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“I still remember typing the title page on my manual Smith-Corona with clammy hands and a racing heart. When I came to the words, "A novel by Joyce Elbert", I heard the New York Philharmonic break into Wagnerian praise for a major new literary voice, yet seconds later doubt and insecurity had crept in.”

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Book:A Tale of Five Cities & Other Memoirs
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A Tale of Five Cities & Other Memoirs

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