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"People have always seemed funny and strange to me, and touching in unexpected ways. I can't shake off a sort of mist of irony that hangs over shake off a sort of mist of irony that hangs over whatever I see.... It just seems to me that even the most ordinary person, in real life, will turn the most ordinary person, in real life, will turn out to have something unusual at his center."
Anne Tyler, quoted in Washington Post, 10/22/03.
If Jane Austen were to cast her eye on 21st-century society, her observations might touch a nerve with contemporary novelist and short-story writer Anne Tyler....
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