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Classical in form, bleak, grave and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Harlan Ellison
- First published
- 1975
- Pages
- 316
- Publisher
- Millington, Dell Publishing, Harper & Row
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780440117377
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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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