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The World Pool

The World Pool

The World Pool

Robert Leo Heilman

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Sylph Maid Books
Año de edición:
2016
Materia
Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9780990868637
Páginas:
176
Encuadernación:
Rústica
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The World Pool is a literary variety show by award-winning author Robert Leo Heilman. These collected short works, culled from thirty years-worth of freelance writing for magazine and newspapers deal with a broad range of topics such as personal and Oregon history, the 1960's counterculture, manual labor, politics and war.

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