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Alan Cheuse: 'The Curse of the Appropriate Man'

By Alan Cheuse
Published October 8, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT
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Alan Cheuse reviews The Curse of the Appropriate Man by South African expatriate writer Lynn Freed. The book is a collection of short fiction, with mostly Jewish South African female characters.

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