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02151aam a22004578i 4500 001 6029526A46B111E3AB24AE84DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20190228010452 008 130621s2013 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2013022126 020 $a 0765335956 (hardback) 020 $a 9780765335951 (hardback) 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3573.O52 $b L36 2013 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 23 084 $a FIC009000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Wolfe, Gene. 245 14 $a The land across / $c Gene Wolfe. 250 $a First Edition. 263 $a 1311 264 1 $a New York : $b Tor Books, $c 2013. 300 $a pages cm 500 $a "A Tom Doherty Associates Book." 520 $a "An American writer of travel guides in need of a new location chooses to travel to a small and obscure Eastern European country. The moment Grafton crosses the border he is in trouble, much more than he could have imagined. His passport is taken by guards, and then he is detained for not having it. He is released into the custody of a family, but is again detained. It becomes evident that there are supernatural agencies at work, but they are not in some ways as threatening as the brute forces of bureaucracy and corruption in that country. Is our hero in fact a spy for the CIA? Or is he an innocent citizen caught in a Kafkaesque trap? Gene Wolfe keeps us guessing until the very end, and after"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Travel writers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Corruption $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Fantasy fiction. 650 7 $a FICTION / Fantasy / General. $2 bisacsh 655 7 $a Adventure fiction. 941 $a 9 952 $l DFPC353 $d 20240430020300.0 952 $l GZPE631 $d 20240305032641.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722042213.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20200528054719.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204072133.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110054055.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006072901.0 952 $l MWPB943 $d 20180712042038.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418100414.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6029526A46B111E3AB24AE84DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search