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Classical in form, grave, cool and raw.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- rawmeticulous
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- John Kaye
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 330
- Publisher
- Grove Press, Atlantic Monthly Press
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780802140173
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First sentence
“At about nine P.M. on an unseasonably warm Saturday night in November of 1965, Gene Burk was sitting at a ringside table inside P.J.'s, a rock-and-roll dance club on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood.”
About John Kaye · 1941
John Kaye is an American screenwriter, novelist and playwright.
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