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168th out of 276 books
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361 voters
The Seven Who Fled
Writing in the New York Times, Harold Strauss said about The Seven Who Fled (which won the Harper Prize):
In singing, supple prose, with an evocative power strange to our earthbound ears, with passion and often with fury, Frederic Prokosch takes us off to the vast, mysterious reaches of Central Asia. It is a weird adventure of the spirit on which he leads us. For, mistake n...more
In singing, supple prose, with an evocative power strange to our earthbound ears, with passion and often with fury, Frederic Prokosch takes us off to the vast, mysterious reaches of Central Asia. It is a weird adventure of the spirit on which he leads us. For, mistake n...more
Paperback, 479 pages
Published
January 1st 1984
by Farrar Straus Giroux
(first published 1937)
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I'm approaching this like a short story collection with each section being a new story.
Sorry, Frederick, maybe another time ... but I wanted to learn about your main characters, not your opinion of the mystical state of the desert and mankind ...
Many years ago Harlan Ellison phoned my bookshop and the talk drifted to his favorite books. This was one and he was so enthusiastic about it that he grabbed his copy and started reading a passage. I later found a copy but was underwhelmed. Perhaps my expectations were too high. I've given this a provisional ** but am resolved to reread it someday. I must have missed something.
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