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An odyssey through time in which past and future combine and re-combine to give the arc of a full life, by the \u201cbrilliant\u201d (The New Yorker<\/em>) author of A Different Drummer<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“[A] lost giant of American literature.\u201d \u2014The New Yorker<\/em><\/strong><\/h2><\/div>

Born in New York City in 1937 and raised in the Bronx NY, Kelley attended the Fieldston School and Harvard. The author of five novels and a short story collection, he was a writer in residence at the State University of New York at Geneseo and taught at The New School and Sarah Lawrence College. He was awarded the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for lifetime achievement and the Dana Reed Prize for creative writing. He died in 2017.

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