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One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year-old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college in the 1960s. They couldn't have been more different then, or even today - Lincoln's a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press publisher and Mickey an ageing musician. But each man holds…
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I’m a big fan of Richard Russo. His characters always feel absolutely human, so much so that it’s easy to imagine meeting them in real life, assuming there is such a thing as real life! I could have chosen any of his books as one of my best of 2025, as I’ve read several this past year. But this was the most recent, so this became my choice.
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