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"A love story and a story of fantastic adventure, it is also a hugely comic novel" (Sunday Times)
"A dazzling linguistic and formal achievment" (Salman Rushdie)
"Poised, superbly inventive and gripping. With Lemprière's Dictionary the precocious author has catapulted himself into the premier league of English fiction writing" (Observer)
"Extravagantly spectacular...myriad wonders and pleasures abound....superbly entertaining" (Washington Post)
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- PublisherSinclair-Stevenson Ltd
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 1856190536
- ISBN 13 9781856190534
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages530
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