The PlanetsA Kurt Vonnegut for the '90s, an earthbound Douglas Adams. James Boylan's debut novel is wildly inventive, original, and deeply, outrageously funny. When lovesick Edith Schmertz takes an ill-fated leap out of an airplane on Easter Sunday, she sets in motion an inexorable chain of events, sending many human orbits spinning wildly out of control. |
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... eyes now . If he could have reached the scissors he would have threat- ened her with them . But , of course , as he well knew , he couldn't reach them . She was looking him in the eyes now ; it was as if she'd dropped the scissors only ...
... eyes now . If he could have reached the scissors he would have threat- ened her with them . But , of course , as he well knew , he couldn't reach them . She was looking him in the eyes now ; it was as if she'd dropped the scissors only ...
Page 109
... eyes shut tight . He played the whole thing with his eyes closed , and when he finished he opened his eyes and saw her and spoke her name . That had been three months ago . In the evening Vicki had come back with him to the house in ...
... eyes shut tight . He played the whole thing with his eyes closed , and when he finished he opened his eyes and saw her and spoke her name . That had been three months ago . In the evening Vicki had come back with him to the house in ...
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... eyes was an unpleasant shade of red . " You don't know what it's like . I feel like scratching out my own eyes sometimes . " " I know what that's like , " Dwayne said suddenly . Vicki looked at Dwayne uncomfortably . The fat man shook ...
... eyes was an unpleasant shade of red . " You don't know what it's like . I feel like scratching out my own eyes sometimes . " " I know what that's like , " Dwayne said suddenly . Vicki looked at Dwayne uncomfortably . The fat man shook ...
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