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Along with the edition found in ryersons childrens literature archive the editor of the anthology w. The book has already been given a rapturous welcome by the irish critics who are hailing mathews as a throwback to flann. But her longlost fathers socalled land of promise is a dangerous place, and she has never felt so alone. In addition to laxalts vivid prose poetry, many of his vignettes are interesting as anthropological descriptions of life in the pays basque.
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