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The Present and the Past

(1953)
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Nine years after her divorce from Cassius, Catherine decides to re-enter his life. Cassius's second wife feels resentment, but as friendship develops between the two women it is Cassius who is excluded and whose self-pity intensifies, erupting in a shocking and unexpected way.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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