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In this story set in east texas, a local seamstress named chintana finds herself responsible for five orphans who are not only. Sword of the guardian by merry shannon overdrive rakuten. Even so, i still consider the list extremely accurate and all the novels below are great reads. Widely available for the first time, the book maintains danielewskis trademark formatting quirks. The joy of the book comes mostly from the physical act of turning the pages and scanning the layout, but. The fifty year sword is a clever experiment in voice and structure, a prose poem consisting of cascading waves of dialogue spoken by five different narrators looking back on a single frightening night. Danielewski the following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. His novella, the fifty year sword, was released five years ago today. The novel has been adapted as a film several times, most recently in 1999.
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