Excerpt: Native Speaker

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Briefly:
"I am an amiable man.  I can be most personable, if not charming, and whatever I possess in this life is more of less the result of a talent I have for making you feel good about yourself when you are with me.  In this sense I am not a seducer.  I am hardly seen.  I won't speak untruths to you, I won't pass easy compliments or odious offerings of flattery.  I make do with on-hand materials, what I can chip out of you, your natural ore.  Then I fuel the fire of your most secret vanity."
I am hooked.  What a stunning conclusion to chapter 1 of Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee.

P.S. Chapter 2 begins: "I should have warned my American wife." Love.


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