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Cool, prestige, contemporary and grave.
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Joseph McElroy
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 1192
- Publisher
- Dzanc Books, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Alfred A. Knopf
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780979312397
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First sentence
“After all she was not so sure what had happened, or when it had started. Which was probably not a correct state to be in, because what had happened made the biggest difference in her life so far.”
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