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The Undertaking by Audrey Magee

The Undertaking

by Audrey Magee
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  • First Published:
  • Aug 19, 2014, 304 pages
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  • Sep 2015, 228 pages
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Each of the men shook his hand.

'I need a drink,' said Faber.

He picked up his helmet, but left the photograph and walked back to camp.

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Excerpted from The Undertaking by Audrey Magee. Copyright © 2014 by Audrey Magee. Excerpted by permission of Grove Press. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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