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E-book exclusive special feature: This PerfectBound e-book contains “Virtualism,” an essay on consumerism in a wired time – written especially by the author to help to encourage you to buy this e-book.Ursula Van Urden arrives in the volcano-shadowed metropolis of Middle City in the wake of her sister Ivy's widely publicized suicide attempt.
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Contemporary, open-ended, grave and bleak.
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Alex Shakar
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- HarperCollins, HarperCollinsPublishers, Harper Perennial
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780743207256
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