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Tuesday, November 14, 2006 12:00 AM

"Wizard of the Crow"

This inventive, surprising, madcap African political farce is like a cross between Pynchon and "A Confederacy of Dunces."
By Laura Miller

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Tuesday, November 14, 2006 09:43 AM

Many Thanks!

Thank you for tipping me to a previously unknown to me novelist.

I just checked; our local library has 35 copies of the previously published Petals of Blood.

Fox

—Fox Hart

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Tuesday, November 14, 2006 02:00 PM

Added to my wish list

along with Petals of Blood.

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