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Kate's desperate struggles to maintain her sanity force Binx to relinquish his dreamworld.
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Contemplative, prestige, grave and character-led.
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Walker Percy
- First published
- 1961
- Pages
- 241
- Publisher
- Vintage, Eyre & Spottiswoode, Avon Books
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780375701962
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First sentence
“This morning I got a note from my aunt asking me to come for lunch.”
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