- Fiction, general, Fiction, College students, Good and evil
Stephen Titus George finds the campus of Cornell University a site for talking cats and dogs, fairies cavorting, an emerald-green dragon, and the too-shallow grave of Rasferret the Grub.
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Contemporary, unpretentious, warm and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Matt Ruff
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 398
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury, Warner Books, Grand Central Publishing
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780747503613
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“On a windless summer day in an uncertain year, more than a century after the founding of Cornell, a man who told lies for a living climbed to the top of The Hill to fly a kite.”
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