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The Guardians
Remembering a New York friendship. Excerpted from Manguso's new book,
The Guardians: An Elegy
, out Feb. 28:
"The Thursday edition of the Riverdale Press carried a story that began
An unidentified white man was struck and instantly killed by a Metro-North train last night as it pulled into the Riverdale station on West 254th Street.
"The train’s engineer told the police that the man was alone and that he jumped. The police officers pulled the body from the track and found no identification. The train’s 425 passengers were transferred to another train and delayed about twenty minutes."
AUTHOR:
Sarah Manguso
SOURCE:
The Paris Review
PUBLISHED:
Feb. 14, 2012
LENGTH:
9 minutes (2368 words)
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