How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken (57 page)

DANIEL MENDELSOHN
is a frequent contributor to
The New York Review of Books
and many other publications. His books include the international bestseller
The Lost
, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Prix Médicis in France. His other awards include a National Book Critics Circle Award for book reviewing and the George Jean Nathan Prize for Drama Criticism. He teaches at Bard College.

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HOW BEAUTIFUL IT IS AND HOW EASILY IT CAN BE BROKEN
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