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A Thousand Pearls (for a Thousand Pennies)

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3.5

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Language
English
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Fiction

The answers are spontaneous, revealing, ominous, insignificant, grotesque, amusing, lecherous, tragic and trivial by turns, and lovable in their cheerful imperfection. This is a book about the basics: love, sexuality, death, and all the other things that lurk in our everyday thoughts.

© 2011 Dalkey Archive Press (Ebook): 9781564786609

Translators: Ian Monk

Release date

Ebook: July 19, 2011

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