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The adventures of seven-year-old Rufus Moffat, living with his widowed mother and older siblings including his encounter with an invisible piano player and his attempts at ventroliquism.
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Classical in form, warm, intimate and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
- effortlessdemanding
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Eleanor Estes, Louis Slobodkin
- First published
- 1943
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Turtleback Books, Penguin Random House, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780440700272
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“Rufus M. That's the way Rufus wrote his name on his heavy arithmetic paper and on his blue-lined spelling paper.”
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