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Jane Hamilton Draws "A Map of the World"

Hamilton's new novel is about a Midwestern farm family whose lives are changed irrevocably by one terrible incident. Her first book, "The Book of Ruth," won the 1989 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel.

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Other segments from the episode on August 8, 1994

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, August 8, 1994: Interview with Ray Shell; Interview with Jane Hamilton; Review of Robert Pete Williams' albums "I'm as Blue as a Man Can Be" and "When a Man Takes the…

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