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n's is a different and distinctive voice and a most welcome one. In this novel his talent shows sparks of genius."
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Young Louis Benfield tells the story of his tiny little North Carolina town. There is the looniness of his family, the town of characters, the charm and naviete that gives us a world unknown, and stories that deserve to be told about how it is to grow up a certain kind of way, and to suddenly discover there's a world beyond your own that calls to you....
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Young Louis Benfield tells the story of his tiny little North Carolina town. There is the looniness of his family, the town of characters, the charm and naviete that gives us a world unknown, and stories that deserve to be told about how it is to grow up a certain kind of way, and to suddenly discover there's a world beyond your own that calls to you....
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- PublisherMartin Secker & Warburg Ltd
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0436201542
- ISBN 13 9780436201547
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