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A Handbook of Disappointed Fate
Written by Anne Boyer
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A Handbook of Disappointed Fate highlights a decade of Anne Boyer’s interrogative writing on poetry, death, love, lambs, time, Kansas City, and other impossible questions.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great essays. Boyer is like a modern day, female David Foster Wallace.