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Contemporary, grave, classical in form and open-ended.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Samuel R. Delany
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 383
- Publisher
- Tandem Library, Orion Publishing Group, Limited, Vintage Books
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780375706714
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