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There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
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Reached
Noise
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Life
Truest

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