:: : If I said, " That's a likely story, " you couldn't respond " I am 100 % sure it's a story, not a poem . " My statement would be an ironic statement that I doubted that what you said described any truth.
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On the face of it, " A Likely Story, " by a once silenced young woman who is now herself a well-reviewed writer, would seem to belong in the same category with Susanna Kaysen's " Girl, Interrupted " or Toi Derricotte's " Black Notebooks ."
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The real point of " A Likely Story, " however, is not so much the catalog of hurts inflicted by the elderly, ailing Hellman, but the kind of teen-ager who would take a maid's job thoroughly convinced that a literary icon of the 20th century was just waiting to be her best friend.
