A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.
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Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.
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Inge did not transform his characters: They end where they began. But he understood them. In their interplay was genuine life, often blunted but ever resilient.
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The title refers to the wife's calling for a lost puppy, yet it is clear that hers is in truth a cri de cœur for the unassuageable pain of growing old before she has even grown up.
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What you get is first-draft Neil Simon.
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