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God's Sparrows (1937)

by Philip Child

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First published by Anansi in 1969, Five Legs was a breakthrough for Canadian experimental fiction, selling 1,000 copies in its first week. At the time Scott Symons wrote that ""Five Legs has more potent writing in it, page for page, than any other young Canadian novel that I can think of."" Or indeed any young American novel - including Pynchon and Farina.Five Legs is the subversive tale of two guilt-ridden young men, Lucan Crackell and Felix Oswald - one a professor, the other his student - caught in the grip of the North American Protestant ethic, with its e… (more)
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First published by Anansi in 1969, Five Legs was a breakthrough for Canadian experimental fiction, selling 1,000 copies in its first week. At the time Scott Symons wrote that ""Five Legs has more potent writing in it, page for page, than any other young Canadian novel that I can think of."" Or indeed any young American novel - including Pynchon and Farina.Five Legs is the subversive tale of two guilt-ridden young men, Lucan Crackell and Felix Oswald - one a professor, the other his student - caught in the grip of the North American Protestant ethic, with its e

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