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The Ice at the Bottom of the World: Stories

by Mark Richard · 1989

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In these ten stories, Mark Richard, winner of the 1990 PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award, emerges as the heir apparent to Mark Twain, Flannery O'Connor, and William Faulkner.

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adult
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short · 144 pages
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