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The land across
- Title
- The land across / Gene Wolfe.
- Author
- Wolfe, Gene.
- Publication
- New York : Tor, 2013.
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 14-2125 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 286 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "An American writer of travel guides in need of a new location chooses to travel to a small and obscure Eastern European country. The moment Grafton crosses the border he is in trouble, much more than he could have imagined. His passport is taken by guards, and then he is detained for not having it. He is released into the custody of a family, but is again detained. It becomes evident that there are supernatural agencies at work, but they are not in some ways as threatening as the brute forces of bureaucracy and corruption in that country. Is our hero in fact a spy for the CIA? Or is he an innocent citizen caught in a Kafkaesque trap? Gene Wolfe keeps us guessing until the very end, and after"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Action and adventure fiction.
- Fantasy fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Note
- "A Tom Doherty Associates Book."
- ISBN
- 9780765335951 (hbk.) :
- 0765335956 (hbk.) :
- 9781466826359 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2013022126