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Contemporary, contemplative, character-led and cool.
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- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Daniel Quinn
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 264
- Publisher
- Via Óptima, Random House Publishing Group, Random House Audio
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- Portuguese, English
- ISBN
- 9780553470529
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First sentence
“The first time I read the ad, I choked and cursed and spat and threw the paper to the floor.”
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