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Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
1992
Penguin
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83 He though of making her arrival as pleasant as possible...thought
86 Both mostly what she felt in the moment of arrival was space, extension, bigness.."But
95 The talk was about evenly divided between engineering technicalities and comments an Oliver's undeserved luck.on
126 While she had him there helplessly listening, she generally managed to work in Thomas Hudson's latest poem of Old Cupboard essay...or
147 It was as if he had become invisible the moment he entered the office.she
175 "Will you never let me forget that?" she said, and send him a smiling, plreading, puckered face.sent
396 Susan's pregnancy prevent her [ ] making any of the expeditions to the mountains that had once been their standard entertainment...from
397 She had drawn him so often that she could have drawn him blindfold.blindfolded
399 She felt abandoned, left behind; she thought with motherly affection of Wiley, who kept in touch with them by letters, and with uneasiness of Frank, who had disappeared without trace where out the Oregon Short Line toward the coast.who had disappeared without a trace where the Oregon Short Line headed out toward the coast [?]
416 He let go [ ] Ollie's hand...of
423 Dared she cross the bridge in the dark, and be waiting at the corral when Oliver rode up?Dare
488 + 489 Meantime, the Big Ditch is stalled until the Syndicate decides to provide this summer's construction money... [and] The Syndicate are quarreling amoung themselves and accusing...[select singular or plural for "Syndicate"]
515 The practice of meditation, for which one needs' only the ground beneath one's feet, wipes out mountains of junk being...needs only "the ground beneath one's feet," [quotation from Gary Snyder, 1961]
558 It was away past the time she should have come to start my dinner.way [col.]

1971
Doubleday
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172 A young couple, the only people on that beach except themselves, slogged by through heavy stand, staring impertinently.sand
Thank you to guest proofreader Richard Kates!

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