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Original Essays | September 23, 2009
By Jonathan Lethem
For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has...
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Product Details
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- Subtitle:
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- Author:
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- Publisher:
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- Location:
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- Subject:
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- Subject:
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- Subject:
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- Subject:
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- Subject:
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- Subject:
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- Subject:
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- Subject:
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- Edition Description:
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- Series:
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- Series Volume:
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- Publication Date:
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- Binding:
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- Language:
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- Illustrations:
- Yes
- Pages:
- 192
- Dimensions:
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