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The Beaton fellow.
Oh yes. Everybodys dead.
Good show, though.
And he went off to bed glumly singing Oh, what a beautiful morning as the Queen opened her book.
Excerpted from The Uncommon Reader by Forelake Ltd. Copyright © 2007 by Forelake Ltd. Published in September 2007 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. All rights reserved.
The Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu
Debut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one woman's midlife reawakening in contemporary rural China.
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