The overstory

"An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back to life by creatures of air and light. A hearing-and speech-impaired scientist discovers that tre...

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Xehetasun bibliografikoak
Egile nagusia: Powers, Richard, 1957-
Formatua: Livre papier
Hizkuntza:Anglais
Argitaratua: London : Vintage 2019.
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