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    This document provides a summary and recommendation of the short story "The Stone Boy" by Gina Berriault. It describes the story as a meditation on good and evil, and how people's expectations can influence others over time. While it touches on these themes, the reviewer notes the story delves deeper and resists simplification. They also provide biographical information on Berriault and recommend a collection of her short stories.

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    This document provides a summary and recommendation of the short story "The Stone Boy" by Gina Berriault. It describes the story as a meditation on good and evil, and how people's expectations can influence others over time. While it touches on these themes, the reviewer notes the story delves deeper and resists simplification. They also provide biographical information on Berriault and recommend a collection of her short stories.

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    “The Stone Boy” by Gina Berriault (1957)

    This great and underrated masterpiece is a meditation on good and evil and

    especially about the way that people’s expectations and assumptions about us

    may wear us down and eventually force us into compliance with their view. But it

    is a much deeper and more biblical story than that and, like any great work of

    art, resists reduction. Berriault, who died in 1999, is known as a San Francisco writer.

    A wonderful sampling of her stories is available in Women in Their Beds: New &

    Selected Stories. George Saunders

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