The Clothes They Stood Up In by Allen Bennett

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Monday, July 15 through Friday, July 19, 2002.Read by Karl Schmidt.

Rosemary and Maurice come home from the opera one night to find that they’ve been robbed. And not just robbed of a few expensive possessions, but of everything they own. Months later, they find it all, meticulously re-created, in a storage facility. Why? And how will they react? Will their lives stand up to such an absurdity?

(Random House; ISBN-10: 0375503064)

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