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Larry jeff mcmurtry born june 3, 1936 is an american novelist, essayist, bookseller, and. Synopsis alice thompson s new novel is a gothic story of book collecting, mutilation and madness. Alice adams is an educator and a veteran transportation writer for various national trade publications, as well as for the houston chronicle. Her novel justine was the joint winner of the 1996 james tait black memorial prize. It all begins when archie tells violet of a rare book of fairy tales that she is not ever allowed to see or read. But soon after the birth of her baby the idyll begins to disintegrate.
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