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Poor Man’s Tapestry

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Oliver Onions was a novelist and short-story writer. His work Poor Man's Tapestry, published in 1946, earned him the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. A tapestry is a heavy, decorative cloth often used for wall hangings, or metaphorically, something made up of many different elements.12

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