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A portrait of a family of proud layabouts who avoid work and sleep all day by the Egyptian writer often referred to as the Voltaire of the Nile

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"Despite the seemingly unrelieved gloom and futility in which his figures move, Cossery nevertheless expresses in every work the indomitable faith in the power of people to throw off the yoke." -- Henry Miller

Laziness in the Fertile Valley

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    A Paperback / softback by Albert Cossery, William Goyen, Henry Miller

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      Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation
      Published 3 December 2013
      ISBN-13 9780811218740
      978-0811218740
      ISBN-10 0811218740
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      Contemporary Fiction

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      Book Synopsis
      A portrait of a family of proud layabouts who avoid work and sleep all day by the Egyptian writer often referred to as the Voltaire of the Nile

      Trade Review
      "Despite the seemingly unrelieved gloom and futility in which his figures move, Cossery nevertheless expresses in every work the indomitable faith in the power of people to throw off the yoke." -- Henry Miller

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