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Spare, classical in form, grave and contemporary.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- Peter Straub
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 416
- Publisher
- Editions J'ai lu
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- French
- ISBN
- 9782277228165
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Peter Straub was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 2 March, 1943, the first of three sons of a salesman and a nurse. The salesman wanted him to become an athlete, the nurse thought he would do well as either a doctor or a Lutheran minister, but all he wanted to do was to learn to read. When kindergarten turned out to be a stupefyingly banal disappointment devoted to cutting animal shapes out of heavy colored paper, he took matters into his own hands and taught himself to read by memorizing his comic books and reciting them over and over to other neighborhood children on the front steps until he could recognize the words. Therefore, when he finally got to first grade to find everyone else labor
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