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This author inspired a novel in which a Romanian Holocaust survivor with a gunshot scar on her arm marries the aspiring poet Julian. After the protagonist of a novel by this author recognizes a woman carrying a pink parasol who is riverboating (-5[1])with her lover near a countryside inn, he comes to doubt the meaning of the phrase “virtuous attachment.” The plot of that novel by this author is reversed in Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick, who wrote an essay (10[1])titled “What [this (10[1])author] Knew.” The protagonist declares, “Live all you can; (-5[1])it’s (10[1])a mistake (10[1])not (10[1])to” (10[1])to a friend in (10[1])Gloriani’s garden in that novel by this author, in which a woman desires for her wayward son Chad Newsome (10[3])to be (10[2])brought (10[1])home (10[2])from (-5[1])Europe by (10[2])Lambert (-5[1])Strether. For 10 points, name this American author whose “late-period” novels include The Golden Bowl (10[1])and The (10[1])Ambassadors. ■END■ (10[4]0[2])

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