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Grave, earnest, contemplative and spare.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Frank Conroy
- First published
- 1967
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Bodley Head, Penguin (Non-Classics), Penguin Books
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780670003396
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