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BRIEFLY NOTED.(Family Romance)(Brief article)(Book review)
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Family Romance, by John Lanchester (Putnam; $27.95). Lanchester had always sensed "a kind of interior Area 51" in his mother's past, but it was not until her death, when he was thirty-six, that he discovered her secret: thirty-eight years before, she had officially (but illegally) changed her name and age. In this memoir, he attempts to understand the reasons for, and effects of, her lie, by tracing the stories of his parents' lives--his ...
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