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Wednesday, February 8, 2006 12:00 AM

"The Last of Her Kind"

Sigrid Nunez's story of the friendship between two Barnard women in the 1970s is a truly great American novel.
By Andrew O'Hehir

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  • Wednesday, February 8, 2006 08:38 PM

    Good Grief

    The most common names in England has Catholic associations for pete's sake. There's nothing particularly papist about Sophia--a name that means "wisdom" and thus in keeping with the Puritan tradition of virtue names. As for "Dooley" being Irish--that doesn't preclude it from having WASP associations. The Irish upper classes were Protestant and there's a *long* tradition of Anglo-Irish intermarriage among Protestants and thus Gaelic names.

    I have to say as a WASP, myself, Ms. Schwartz' fabulist take on my tribe is just kind of peculiar.

    —Uriel. Read Uriel.'s other letters

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