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Dhalgren

by Samuel R. Delany

Following a mysterious disaster, the city of Bellona exists in a state of temporal and physical flux. An amnesiac protagonist known as the Kid navigates this shifting urban landscape inhabited by a community of marginalised survivors and outcasts.

Accession 15528 ISBN 0553117181 Publisher Bantam Press
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