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Rereading: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (2017)

auxiliarymemory.com published 2017-01-06

by James Wallace Harris, Friday, January 6, 2017 I first read The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder just after it came out in 1981, before it won the Pulitzer and National Book awards in 1982. …

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