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Synopsis
A quartet of novellas including "Accountant", "Batorsag and Szerelem", "City of Broken Dreams" and "The Palace Thief". In the title story a teacher spots the seeds of corruption in a wayward student and watches with fascinated horror as the boy, and then the man flourishes.
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"Marvelous...Each plot is dramatic, its characters highly engaging, the suspense sustained and irresistible...A commanding performance."-"The New York Times
"Extraordinary for its craft and emotional effect...a writer of enormous talent and charm." -"The Washington Post
"These four long stories are not only splendid reading material; they are stunning art, the kind if art that, blessed with an adamant yet unadorned intelligence, capers at the edge of life's deepest mysteries." -"The Dallas Morning News
"Superb."-"Time
"Masterful...[Canin is] a keen and compassionate talent. His writing is cut of whole cloth; it is beautiful and it wears well." --"New York Daily News
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From the critically acclaimed author of 'America, America' and the new novel out in the UK this August, 'A Doubter's Almanac'
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- PublisherPicador USA
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0312307314
- ISBN 13 9780312307318
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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