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'88: Ethan Frome

by The Magnetic Fields

on 50 Song Memoir (2017)

Materpiece of catastrophic love
In a small New England town
95 pages of tragedy
Difficult to put down...

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Came to light in 1911
Overnight lit-fic classic
Bringing fame to Edith Wharton
And fortune to Scribner's Sons...

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I first read you on my birthday
And again umpteen more times
When will the make you a musical?
There have been far worse crimes...

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