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| | Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Agent provocateur |
 | | The 56-year-old literary agent of Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, Salman Rushdie and Martin Amis, among others, conceals his Wall Street-style drive behind the lean, grave exterior of a man in the medical, or possibly the funeral, profession. |
 | | He divides his fellow agents into two categories: the fancy ones who expect their clients to come to them, and the hustlers, like him. |
 | | The key to good agenting, says Wylie, is self-effacement, and there is something strangely passive about him, for a man of such obvious ambition. |
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