Mat Johnson
1) Pym: a novel
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English
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American literature professor Chris Jaynes is obsessed with "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket," Edgar Allan Poe's strange and only novel. He resolves to seek out Tsalal, the remote island of pure and utter blackness that Poe describes with horror.
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Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
©2015.
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English
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"Warren Duffy has returned to America for all the worst reasons: his marriage to a beautiful Welsh woman has come apart; his comic shop in Cardiff has failed; and his Irish-American father has died, bequeathing to Warren his last possession, a roofless, half-renovated mansion in the heart of black Philadelphia. On his first night in his new home, Warren spies two figures in the grass outside; when he screws up the nerve to confront them, they disappear....
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