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Harry L. Mountzoures

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5 picks · 1968–1986

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At the Tutor's
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The narrator is the father of a second-grader, Phillip, who is having difficulties in school. In the spring the narrator and his wife decide to take their …

On the Way to the Acropolis
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Carol is 20 years old, a waitress who lives with her parents and takes night courses at a local college. She goes to a discotheque with her friends one …

Moving Through Time and Space
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Dina, 20 years old, stays in the states to look for a husband when her mother, the writer's cousin, goes back to Greece. Dina has a boyfriend named …

Milkman's Boy
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A boy of twelve is taken from his home in Providence to his aunt's house in the country because his mother is sick and cannot care for him. His …

An Examination
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Mark Fabbri, a 1st generation Italian American, is 32, single, & a research biologist at the Conn. Marine Laboratories. Lately he has been suffering from …