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DEBUT Published as its author turns 80, this first collection plumbs the lives, longings, and ongoing intellectual turmoil of older women in language that's light but tart and penetrating; Campbell is a master of the apt phrase, as when an upright woman is described as having "the cold virtue of undamaged porcelain." As she demonstrates repeatedly in her briskly told tales, "Ageing is often represented as an accumulation, of disease, of...Log In or Sign Up to Read More