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Morris collection recalls Edgar Allan Poe influence
From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19861224
Author:Sharon Barrett
Collected Stories 1948-1986. By Wright Morris. Harper & Row. $17.95.
Dogs, cats, bats and birds occupy if not center stage at least supporting roles in Wright Morris's most recent book. But anyone familiar with Morris' career, which spans half a century and includes 19 novels, four collections of essays and three volumes of memoirs, knows better than to expect all things bright and beautiful in this animal kingdom.
A touch of the grotesque, which sometimes shades into horror, flavors many of the 26 stories in this collection. "The Cat in the Picture," first published in 1958, is the story ...
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