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| Summary |
"At the turn of the twentieth century, a baseball player named George Gibson embarks upon a mystical journey to the Congo. His mission: to shepherd a powerful relic to its home in Abyssinia. But poet-turned-grail seeker Arthur Rimbaud is after what Gibson possesses - as others before him have been for millenia." "A half century later, after receiving an honorable discharge from the Korean War, twenty-year-old Lance Porter vows to put his civilian life back together - which means heading to commie-infested Berkeley to see his high school sweetheart, Ellie. But after Lance gets cold feet, he encounters instead a drunk, gay poet named Jack Spicer, who spews crazy stories about Lance being the Fisher King." |
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"It appears that the bearing of the grail has been bequeathed to young Lance, much to his shock and disbelief. Can a legacy born in the deserts of Ethiopia truly be reemerging in the bohemian bars of New York City and San Francisco? And is a vet with a lost soul really worthy of its care?"--BOOK JACKET |
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Rimbaud, Arthur, 1854-1891 -- Fiction.
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Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Veterans -- Fiction.
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Arthurian romances -- Adaptations.
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Grail -- Fiction.
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Poets -- Fiction.
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| SUBJECT |
Berkeley (Calif.) -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007102171
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| Genre/Form |
Fantasy fiction.
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Adaptations.
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| LC no. |
2004049317 |
| ISBN |
0345466969 |
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