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  <title><![CDATA[The Five Gates of Hell (Bloomsbury Paperbacks)]]></title>
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  <default_description>There was a sailor's graveyard in Moon Beach. This was where the funeral business first started. Rumour had it that the witch's fingers used to reach out and sink ships. But there hadn't been a wreck for years, and all the funeral parlours had moved downtown.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1991</original_publication_year>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel, while flawed, is still a fascinating glimpse inside Rupert Thomson's developing voice -- and is thus recommended for die-hard Thomson fans only.<br/><br/>In many ways, the book's Borges-like alternative world -- a beach community with competing funeral industries, jets roaring over the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3409116">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A wild and quirky ride of the imagination; both dark and unusual.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[scary, great]]></body>
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