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Merovingen C.J. Cherryh's fantastic city of canals, where the wealthy and powerful dwell in the highest towers, and the boaters, beggars, spies and thieves lurke on the hightly polluted waterways below....
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- C. J. Cherryh
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 295
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz Limited, DAW Books, DAW
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780886771430
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Carolyn Janice Cherry (born September 1, 1942), better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is an American writer of speculative fiction.
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