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Contemporary, contemplative, prestige and intimate.
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Richard Powers
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 333
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books, Limited, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, Abacus
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780349109473
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