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Classical in form, grave, cool and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- George Alec Effinger
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Ediciones Martínez Roca, Doubleday, Orb Books
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780385263498
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First sentence
“WE'D RIDDEN for many days out the coast highway toward Mauretania, the part of Algeria where I'd been born.”
About George Alec Effinger · 1947–2002
George Alec Effinger was an American science fiction author.
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