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Love. Violence. Destiny. These powerful themes ricochet through Lorenzo Carcaterra's new novel like bullets from a machine gun.
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Grave, relentless, epic and earnest.
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Lorenzo Carcaterra
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 411
- Publisher
- Goldmann, Simon & Schuster, Random House Publishing Group
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- German, French, English
- ISBN
- 9780708994917
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First sentence
“HE HATED DREDGING up memories.”
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