Falconer

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• Up the River

  America has as yet produced no important novelist who could, like Thomas Mann, publish his greatest work at the age of seventy-two and then go on to write a comic masterpiece based upon a fragmentary jeu d’esprit that had existed for more than forty ... (read full critics)

  nybooks published on Mon, 23 Aug 2010

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  The life inside Falconer, a prison. It is a very well-written work of fiction. Reminds me of Oz (the HBO series) or vice-versa.
  A voyage into oneself.

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  jelabino said on Apr 6, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  "Shit, man, you're beautiful. I mean you're practically senile and there isn't much light in there, but you look very beautiful to me."
  Bullshit, said Farragut, but in some part of the considerable wilderness that was himself, a flower seemed to bloom and he could not find the blossom and crush ... (continue)

  "Shit, man, you're beautiful. I mean you're practically senile and there isn't much light in there, but you look very beautiful to me."
  Bullshit, said Farragut, but in some part of the considerable wilderness that was himself, a flower seemed to bloom and he could not find the blossom and crush it with his heel.

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  miss malina said on Nov 9, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Mass Market Paperback 226 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0345273001
• ISBN-13: 9780345273000
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Pub date: Jan 12, 1978
• Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette and Others
• In other languages: other languages Deutsche Bücher, Libros en Español, Libri Italiani, Российские Книги

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