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Grave, earnest, contemplative and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Robert Holdstock
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 317
- Publisher
- Earthlight, HarperCollins, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780451453563
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First sentence
“Each dawn, since the hollyjack had come to the cathedral bringing her strange dreams, the boy had started to think of waking as the opening of petals, or a form of budding.”
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