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Genre/Form: | War stories Fiction History |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Anthony Marra |
ISBN: | 9780770436407 0770436404 9781781090060 1781090068 9780770436421 0770436420 9781594136863 1594136866 |
OCLC Number: | 793421810 |
Language Note: | In English. |
Awards: | National Books Critics Circle Award John Leonard Prize, 2013 |
Description: | 384 pages ; 25 cm |
Responsibility: | Anthony Marra. |
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"A Constellation of Vital Phenomena is simply spectacular. Not since Everything is Illuminated have I read a first novel so ambitious and fully realized. If this is where Anthony Marra begins his career, I can't imagine how far he will go" Ann Patchett "storytelling of magical purity, illuminated by hope... Marra is a magnificent writer" -- Vanora Bennett The Times "An extraordinary first novel... A 21st-century War and Peace" New York Times "Both heart-wrenching and uplifting, a stunning, intricately plotted, brilliantly written, tour-de-force of a novel that burns into the memory" Choice "A powerful tale... rivals anything Michael Ondaatje has written in its emotional force" -- John Freeman Boston Globe Read more...


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