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- “Letting ourselves down in some fashion is such an integral part of daily life that the paucity of literature…”Lionel Shriver
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Books by Gene Wolfe
The Fifth Head Of Cerberus
1999
The Shadow of the Torturer
1980
The Urth of the new sun
1987
The Knight
2004
Shadow & Claw
1994