Someone to Talk To Summary
Deborah Eisenberg

Someone to Talk To Summary

Deborah Eisenberg's “Someone to Talk To” first appeared in the New Yorker magazine on September 27, 1993. Four years later, it was included in her fourth collection of short stories, entitled All Around Atlantis. The story chronicles the journey of concert pianist Aaron Shapiro, fresh from a breakup with his longtime girlfriend, to an unspecified Latin American country where he is scheduled to perform his first concert in many years. When he arrives, he learns...

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