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Five Fictions

Five Fictions

Five Fictions

Marvin Cohen

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Editorial:
Richard Schober d/b/a Tough Poets Press
Año de edición:
2018
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Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9780692079041
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Five previously unpublished seriocomic novellas and short stories written in the mid-1960s by American postmodern writer Marvin Cohen: Harvy's Failure / The Spring That Never Saw Print / The Don Juan of East Eighty-Ninth Street / A Family Confusion / Guilt in Search of God 3

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