Trade Wind
Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780553209013 (0553209019)
Publish date: 1982
Publisher: Bantam Books
Pages no: 553
Edition language: English
I have been sick for a couple of days, and I really should've been sleeping last night, instead of finishing this book. But, instead, I was finishing this book. I am not even sure where to begin with the writing process here. This book is a mass of contradictions: problematic, beautiful, shocking,...
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