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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I think I'll skip the article and read the book next. Like you, I bought it a while ago.
Thanks for the image of the back cover. I love off the wall design like that.
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Here's the first paragraph of the article. NO spoilers:
"Joan Samson was a Depression baby, born in 1937. She died of cancer in 1976, when she was still in her 30s. In 1975, the year before her death, she published her only novel, The Auctioneer. This seems to be just about the sum total of what is publicly known regarding Joan Samson — and that, I'm here to tell you, is a damn shame, because that one novel of hers, The Auctioneer, is a real humdinger. And it would be nice to be able to tell you a bit more about its author before I go on to build the rest of my article around the novel itself."