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Reason read: this was my TBR takedown for July in Reading 1001. I've had it for a very long time. I think I must have found this book at my mother and dad's home when I was cleaning it out to sell. The copy I have is the first printing of the Crest printing 1964. A mass paperback printing, the cover is in very bad shape but the pages were all in tack. This was the very first National Book Award winner. I think it is a book that has legacy and probably a jumping off point for many a book about th
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I just don't prefer violence.
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Andre Mitchell
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Feb 06, 2016
Soscha
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May 27, 2017
themis
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Dec 28, 2017
Jamie Barringer (Ravenmount)
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