Journal Article

THE HOUSE

Delbanco, Nicholas

2018

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[...]she assured him, she understood the value of convenience. [...]they met with younger agents and chose as representative a blonde divorcee with a black Mercedes convertible and a high chittering laugh. At the office, he had supervised the transition from typewritten individual essays to online common applications; he created a network of alumni interviewers all across the country, and the University of Michigan refined its admission protocols and broadened its out-of-state and international applicant base. The first of them was, Eliane said, functionally illiterate; she couldn't bear to sell the house to someone who wrote: \"We XOXOX your place and high-five about it's being ours!\" A second woman wrote, \"This street was where my mother lived, across the way from the Johnsons, and it would be a dream come true for her to come home again along with my husband and I!

• الناشر: University of Michigan
• موضوع: Logic / Palimpsests / Short stories