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A visionary masterpiece filled with green children, quicksand portals, imaginary countries, revolutionary dictators, and subterranean worlds

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"The Green Child is a mesmerizing novel that resists categorization and simplification." -- Lincoln Michel, Tin House
"The Green Child has narrative and stylistic lucidity as startling as some of its fantasy." -- The New Yorker
"If you want to imagine what it would be like to exist beyond desire, beyond loneliness, and even beyond identity, The Green Child is the book to read." -- The Washington Post
"The Green Child conveys a private sense of glory. The same type of glory that impelled Christian writers to picture the city of God." -- Graham Greene

The Green Child

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    A Paperback / softback by Herbert Read, Eliot Weinberger

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      Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
      Publication Date: 20/12/2013
      ISBN13: 9780811221825, 978-0811221825
      ISBN10: 0811221822

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A visionary masterpiece filled with green children, quicksand portals, imaginary countries, revolutionary dictators, and subterranean worlds

      Trade Review
      "The Green Child is a mesmerizing novel that resists categorization and simplification." -- Lincoln Michel, Tin House
      "The Green Child has narrative and stylistic lucidity as startling as some of its fantasy." -- The New Yorker
      "If you want to imagine what it would be like to exist beyond desire, beyond loneliness, and even beyond identity, The Green Child is the book to read." -- The Washington Post
      "The Green Child conveys a private sense of glory. The same type of glory that impelled Christian writers to picture the city of God." -- Graham Greene

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