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Cool, contemporary, classical in form and comic.
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Christopher Buckley
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 276
- Publisher
- Random House Trade Paperbacks, Random House Audio, Allison & Busby
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780233989440
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First sentence
“There was a thick stack of while you were outs when he got back to the Academy's office in one of the more interesting buildings on K Street, hollowed out in the middle with a ten-story atrium with balconies dripping with ivy.”
About Christopher Buckley · 1952
An American political satirist and author.
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