Jacqueline Harpman 1995
- What it is
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A society that controls everything · melancholic and unhurried
- Genre
- Science fiction Literary
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Melancholic and unhurried · full of big ideas
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Sad, and in no hurry · one to read slowly
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Melancholic and unhurried · funny and sad at once
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A reader shelved it with yours in Dystopias
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