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The Living

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By Jane Bonwell, Indianapolis

April 14, 2009, 5:04 a.m. ET

I am enjoying The Living, a novel about the northwest US in the 19th century by Annie Dillard.聽 Her descriptions of life pioneering in the Washington-Oregon area are quite graphic.