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"Alan Isler's novel has been compared with the works of Isaac Bashevis Singer and Saul Bellow... Can it possibly live up to such praise? It can, it does" (Anita Brookner Spectator)
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- EditoreVintage
- Data di pubblicazione1996
- ISBN 10 0099701510
- ISBN 13 9780099701514
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine256
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