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By Frank Huyler. 163 pp. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1999. $19.95. ISBN 0-520-21863-9.

In Huyler's story "The Virgin," 15-year-old Anna has a problem "down there." "She was so beautiful she caught me. I entered the room looking down at her chart, so that when I raised my eyes I had no warning, no time to prepare myself. She was fifteen and I was exactly twice her age. But I couldn't help it. She was oracular, the kind that leaps from the crowd." As he examines her, Huyler is breezy and conversational, but "[t]here's no avoiding the power of that moment, what floats out of you like a secret. You just don't acknowledge it. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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