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No Name in the Street by James Baldwin The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany Zami by Audre Lorde The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
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But as one reads along, one becomes more and more suspicious that the author has lost the thread of his argument, that the questions will never be resolved, or more upsetting, that the position of the characters will have so changed by the ...more
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