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Wakefield. By E. L. Doctorow. January 7, 2008 ... I thought about bursting in the door—Wakefield arisen—just to see the expression on their faces.
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Jan 12, 2008 · It's a long story, one of the longest I've seen in The New Yorker for some time, and you'll just have to read the thing to find out what happens ...
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Jul 14, 2017 · E.L. Doctorow wrote “Wakefield”, a short story that appeared in “The New Yorker” in January 2008. Wakefield is about a man—a well to do man ...
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Feb 26, 2023 · The story ends with one final surprise: Wakefield decides, on a sudden whim, to return to his house and wife after an absence of twenty years.