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Set among the spinning cogs and wheels of a lavish dinner club for the "gastronomical Elect," The Ruins is a black-eyed, Machiavellian fairy tale for adults, a gleeful cautionary discourse on ambition and ingratitude, and the penalties for disbelief in those forces within oneself. Like all...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Farrell, Trace, 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, ©1998.
Subjects:
Dinners and dining > Fiction.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > General.
Dinners and dining
Fantasy fiction
Fiction
Fantasy fiction.
Fantastic fiction.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, etc.
  • CHAPTER ONE. In Which Our Hero's Knees--Dicey, a Hazard in the Best of Times--Have Never Been Worse ...
  • CHAPTER TWO. The Consummate Martooni
  • CHAPTER THREE. Beauty, Truth, and a Call to First Principles
  • CHAPTER FOUR. In Which Tom Is Keacquainted with Some Old Friends
  • CHAPTER FIVE. A Real Mob Scene
  • CHAPTER SIX. Tango Romantico
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Mortificatio
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. The Ball (About Which Please See Explanatory Remark)
  • CHAPTER NINE. Sacrificio
  • CHAPTER TEN. Kee-kee-kkiree! An Epilogue ...
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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