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Beginner's Greek.(Brief article)(Book review)

The New Yorker

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In this unabashedly romantic debut novel by a former business journalist, the hero and the heroine meet cute (on a plane), fall in love (while discussing Thomas Mann), and are immediately torn asunder (he loses her phone number). Cut to a few years later, when the hero's philandering best friend introduces his latest conquest--guess who. This is the kind of madcap comedy in which a key plot point is ...

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