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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... night and hadn't come in until eleven . He'd spent the whole week visiting their Uncle Pat , who lived in Devon , near Philadel- phia . Uncle Pat had some kind of disease that was making him extinct . He claimed to have caught the same ...
... night and hadn't come in until eleven . He'd spent the whole week visiting their Uncle Pat , who lived in Devon , near Philadel- phia . Uncle Pat had some kind of disease that was making him extinct . He claimed to have caught the same ...
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... night sky . Somewhere up there was a place where all things were in harmony , where there was solace for those feeling grief , where joy did not contradict itself . He looked up into the night . The heavens shimmered and twinkled beyond ...
... night sky . Somewhere up there was a place where all things were in harmony , where there was solace for those feeling grief , where joy did not contradict itself . He looked up into the night . The heavens shimmered and twinkled beyond ...
Page 257
... to be done . No one would ever come to reclaim the house now ; that hole in the ceiling would slowly let more and more of the outer world in , until the floorboards began to warp and squirrels 257 Pluto: The Bringer of Night.
... to be done . No one would ever come to reclaim the house now ; that hole in the ceiling would slowly let more and more of the outer world in , until the floorboards began to warp and squirrels 257 Pluto: The Bringer of Night.
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