- Novela fantástica, Literatura estadounidense, Fiction in English, Fiction, general
Horty is an abused adopted boy who runs away and joins the circus. Now imagine this trope as written by one of the finest and most humane creators of tales about humanity - even when crystalline alien life forms and circus freaks can shame you into feeling like there needs to more love in the world.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and character-led.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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About the book
- First published
- July 1995
- Pages
- 187
- Publisher
- Carroll & Graf Publishers, J'AI LU (�DITIONS), Gregg Press
- Editions
- 31
- Language
- Spanish, English, French
- ISBN
- 9780575071407
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“SORPRENDIERON al niño debajo de las graderías del estadio, frente a la escuela, y lo mandaron de vuelta a su casa.”
**Theodore Sturgeon** (Ted) was born Edward Hamilton Waldo in Staten Island, New York. He changed his name in 1929, choosing Sturgeon to match his mother's surname after her second marriage, and "Theodore" to match his nickname, "Teddy." His mother, Christine Hamilton Dicker Sturgeon, was a well-educated writer, watercolorist, and poet who published journalism, poetry and fiction under the pseudonym Felix Sturgeon. As an adolescent, Sturgeon wanted to be a circus acrobat, but then had an episode of rheumatic fever. From 1935 to 1938, he was a sailor in the merchant marine. He sold his first story in 1938, and his first science fiction story, "Ether Breather" was published in Astounding Scien
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