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This is a tale of two cities, the actual and the imagined. The author attempts to evoke the increasingly menacing atmosphere of a frontier town caught on the edge of the outback by contrasting exile and conflicting passions. The author also wrote "Emperor", "A Cruel Madness" and "Falling".
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0140171827
- ISBN 13 9780140171822
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages208
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This is a tale of two cities, the actual and the imagined. The author attempts to evoke the increasingly menacing atmosphere of a frontier town caught on the edge of the outback by contrasting exile and conflicting passions. The author also wrote "Emperor", "A Cruel Madness" and "Falling". The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR010606529
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ISBN 10: 0140171827
ISBN 13: 9780140171822
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Penguin Edition. Paperback. 'The action takes place in an unnamed, invented town on the edge of the wilderness. The town is ordinary, prositively dull. But there is no water and the tension mounts.' (Daily Telegraph). 204 pp. ( We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). Seller Inventory # 065411
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ISBN 10: 0140171827
ISBN 13: 9780140171822
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint; First Printing. Minor shelf wear, small crack to spine. ; Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. Cover artwork by Stephen Martin. ; 208 pages; Novel set in a mundane town on the edge of a wilderness, but tensions begin to mount when the water dries up. Seller Inventory # 25171
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