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The School of Night: A Novel by Louis Bayard

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The School of Night: A Novel (original 2011; edition 2011)

by Louis Bayard

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The School of Night

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The School of Night

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Henry Cavendish

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Washington, D.C., USA

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Dedication

For Mark H. Now quit bugging me.

First words

Three or four times a week, it comes.

Quotations

He sees her. He stammers, he half rises, the book tumbles from his lap, he stoops for it, then jerks upright. All these actions betray him, but more than anything else, it is his eyes, the way they receive her image and bend it and absorb it and send it back.

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Genres

Fiction and Literature

Historical Fiction

Melvil Decimal System (DDC)

813.54Literature › English (North America) › American fiction › 20th Century › 1945-1999

LC Classification

PS3552.A85864Language and Literature › American literature › American literature › Individual authors › 1961-

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