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Despite its many pleasures, there's an old-fashioned feel to "A Wedding in December." It seems to have been written not for us, exactly, but maybe for our mothers, women of entrenched respectability who are very easily shocked.

Sunday in Book World

· Louis Freeh breaks his silence -- and then some -- on Bill Clinton.

· Margaret Atwood interviews Canadian poet Patrick Lane about his recovery from alcoholism.

· Alison Lurie chronicles a sordid campus breakup.

· Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre reveal their secrets of seduction.

· Military men -- and women -- drop their swords for pens.

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