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and the United States. Ajemian "has been acclaimed as a powerful intellectual voice in
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According to Kari S. Neely, Ajemian's writings in both
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novel is a love story of a bright young Irish journalist and an aging
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writers of the 1960s, Ajemian wrote both in
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