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Great House
Paperback, 289 pages, W.W. Norton & Co., List Price: $14.95 | purchase
Book Summary
The lives of four strangers are thrown into chaos over an enormous, stolen desk, including an antique dealer in Jerusalem, a man in London and an American novelist who inherited it from a poet and victim of Pinochet's secret police. Reprint.
Genres:
This book is about:
- Loss (Psychology),
- Memory,
- Psychological fiction,
- Fiction
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