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Spare, cool, grave and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- Harlan Ellison
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 417
- Publisher
- Penzler Books, Mirage Press
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780883582008
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Harlan Ellison was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of a Jewish-American family. His family moved to Painesville, Ohio, but returned to Cleveland in 1949 after the death of his father. As a child, he performed in minstrel shows, and frequently ran away from home, taking odd jobs. He attended Ohio State University but was expelled after 18 months for hitting a professor who had denigrated his writing ability. He moved to New York City in 1955 to become a science fiction writer. Over the next two years, he published more than 100 short stories and articles. In 1957, he joined a street gang in Brooklyn as research for his novel Web of the City/Rumble and short story collection The Deadly Street
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