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| | Invisible Father |
 | | Sometimes they do or seem to, and sometimes, as he says of his father, ''he seemed to lose his concentration, to forget where he was, as if he had lost the sense of his own continuity.'' The subject, approached directly, eludes the pursuer. |
 | | His father, after a divorce and 15 years of living alone in a big house in New Jersey, ''in the best of health, not even old, with no history of illness,'' suddenly died. |
 | | The groping account takes the form of a series of relatively brief paragraphs and essays that examine his father's behavior toward his family and business acquaintances, as well as his social life after his divorce. |
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