The middle-aged woman who narrates "The Limpet" says she worries that her weakness for wanting to help people will ruin her. But she "presents herself as a victim while manipulating all around her: parents, husband, lover, boss are all grist to the mill of her self-advancement." (Ruth Scurr, in the <em>Telegraph</em>)
First published in Ladies' Home Journal, August 1959.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
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| November 2011 |
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The Doll: The Lost Short Stories | Harper | Collection | 179 |
| November 2011 |
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The Doll: The Lost Short Stories | William Morrow / HarperCollins | Collection | |179 |
| March 2012 |
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The Doll: The Lost Short Stories | Cemetery Dance Publications | Collection | 155 |