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Five years after making one of the most auspicious literary debuts of the decade with his story collection, Whites, Norman Rush gives us a major novel -- a comedy of manners on the grandest scale.
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Classical in form, comic, prestige and warm.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- Norman Rush
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 480
- Publisher
- Distributed by Random House, Vintage, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780679737094
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