Falling towers and postmodern wild children: Oliver sacks, Don Delillo, and turns against language

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Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Berger, James ^a  

^a HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1632/003081205x52446     Document Type: Article

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