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Monkey Sonatas

by Orson Scott Card · 1993

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The final volume of the acclaimed Maps in a Mirror collection includes ten fables and fantasies: "Unaccompanied Sonata", "A Cross-Country Trip to Kill Richard Nixon", "The Porcelain Salamander", "Middle Woman", "The Bully and the Beast", "Sandmagic", "A Plague of Butterflies", "The Monkeys", The Best Day", and "The Princess and the Bear". "A revelation and a delight".—Macon Telegraph.

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