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Publication

1997 - Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

60,500 words, Guess

Page Count

242 pages

Identifiers

and 5 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number98051205
  • Library of Congress Control Number97061489
  • OCLC Control Number38762130
  • Better World Books9780312199517
  • Open LibraryOL388117M

Classifications

  • DDC823/.914
  • LCCPR6053.R228 Q37 1997
  • LCCPR6053.R228Q37 1999

Description

A re-imagining of the forty days Christ spent in the wilderness being tempted by the devil. Judea, about two thousand years ago: There were five of them - not in a group, but strung out along the road where earlier that morning the caravan of uncles had passed by. Three men, a woman, and, too far behind for anyone to guess its gender, a fifth. And this fifth was barefoot, and without a staff. No water-skin, or bag of clothes. No food. A slow, painstaking figure, made thin and watery by the rising, mirage heat, as if someone had thrown a stone into the pool of air through which it walked and ripples had diluted it.

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  • QuarantineFarrar, Straus, and Giroux1997
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