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The streets of New York have erupted in celebration of Wild Card Day - the annual event held every September 15th to remember the dead and cherish the living. It is a day for fireworks and street fairs and parades, for political rallies and memorial banquets, for drinking and fighting in the alleys.
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Unpretentious, plot-driven, grave and classical in form.
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- First published
- February 1990
- Pages
- 416
- Publisher
- I Books, Zysk i S-ka, Océano
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780765365095
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“It was as dark as it ever gets on Fifth Avenue, and as quiet.”
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