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264 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780374102777
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Publication date: Not specified
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceHavana, 1957. On the same day that the Mafia capo Umberto Anastasia is assassinated in a barber's chair in New York, a hippopotamus escapes from the zoo and is shot and killed by its pursuers. Assigned t...
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264 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780374102777
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Publication date: Not specified
Description
A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceHavana, 1957. On the same day that the Mafia capo Umberto Anastasia is assassinated in a barber's chair in New York, a hippopotamus escapes from the zoo and is shot and killed by its pursuers. Assigned t...