The American Child by Elizabeth McCracken (9781515422723)

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One day several years ago, when Mr. Lowes Dickinson's statement that he had found no conversation and-worse still-no conversationalists in America was fresh in our outraged minds, I happened to meet an English woman who had spent approximately the same amount of time in our country as had Mr. Lowes Dickinson. "What has been your experience?" I anxiously asked her. "Is it true that we only 'talk'? Can it really be that we never 'converse'?"

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