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In the Valley of the Kings : [stories]

by Terrence Holt

This collection of one novella and seven stories explores mortality and the imagination across diverse settings. Narratives range from a plague transmitted by a word to an astronaut's fate in deep space and an archaeologist's search for immortality in the Egyptian desert.

Accession 14739 ISBN 9780393071214 Publisher W. W. Norton & Co.
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