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Grave, prestige, earnest and character-led.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- John Clellon Holmes
- First published
- 1952
- Pages
- 311
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited, Distributed by Publishers Group West, Thunder's Mouth Pr
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780911858341
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First sentence
“"Last week I got the idea that the one aim of my intercourse with other people is to prevent them from noticing how brittle and will-less I have become," Paul Hobbes was writing.”
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