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A tragicomic novel about nostalgia, addiction, and 1970s action figures.
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Nostalgic, character-led, intimate and spare.
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 282
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury, Distributed to the press by St. Martin's Press, AmazonEncore
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781582340814
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