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Gene Wolfe is my favorite sci-fi author, and this book has his distinctive voice. All of his protaganists are tall, handsome (but don't think they are handsome), skilled (but don't think they are skilled), successful in strange ways, and they all follow a rather unexpected & tortuous path through life, they have amazing memories, and in general the story is told as a memoir. I wonder how close or far this description is from the author himself. This was slow to start, and not quite as engrossing
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