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On the eve of world war ii, eightyearold eddie alley lies in bed watching his first. By day a potters assistant, by night a courtesan of the streets, gustine works to support her fragile only child. It is a deeply human, urgent exploration of americas doomed love affair with fear. Jan 01, 2000 if clive barker ever writes a historical novel, hell be hard pressed to invent horrors more lurid than the rotting corpses and dangling viscera that grace, so to speak, this lurid and fascinating second novel from holman a stolen tongue, 1997.
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