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A perfect novel. . . . This book dazzles on every level. Its lyrically surprising, unforgettably credible, darkly challenging. You succumb happily on page one and stay in thrall right up to the quick, bruising end.--Julie Myerson
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Nicholas Barber, a young and wayward cleric, stumbles across a group of travelling players and compounds his sins by joining them....
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0140175741
- ISBN 13 9780140175745
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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Morality Play
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Gardners Books
(1996)
ISBN 10: 0140175741
ISBN 13: 9780140175745
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