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Fiction by Jean Stafford, from 1948: “If the sight of someone so peripheral, so uninvolving as Alfred Eisenburg could scare her so badly, what would a cocktail party do?”
Jean Stafford
Jean Stafford, a novelist and short-story writer, died in 1979. Her “ Collected Stories ” won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
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Fiction by Jean Stafford, from 1948: “If the sight of someone so peripheral, so uninvolving as Alfred Eisenburg could scare her so badly, what would a cocktail party do?”