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Investigates the multifaceted nature of human identity and follows the experiences of Joseph, who flees Austria in 1938 and pretends to be Jewish before disappearing from London under mysterious circumstances.
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Prestige, contemplative, grave and character-led.
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- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- William H Gass
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 416
- Publisher
- Knopf, Alfred A. Knopf
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307701633
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