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Character
Spare, earnest, contemporary and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Wally Lamb
- First published
- December 1, 1996
- Pages
- 480
- Publisher
- Pocket, Atria, Washington Square Press
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780671003753
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First sentence
“IN ONE OF MY EARLIEST MEMORIES, MY MOTHER AND I ARE ON the front porch of our rented Carter Avenue house watching two delivery men carry our brand-new television set up the steps.”
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