Matt Ruff
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Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)
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2016
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Bad Monkeys
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2007
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Set This House in Order
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2003
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Fool on the Hill
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1988
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The Mirage
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2012
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Sewer, Gas and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy
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1994
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The Destroyer of Worlds (Lovecraft Country, #2)
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88 Names
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In Hooterville and "The Bear Story" in The Risley Revue vol. 2, issue 3
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Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy : A Novel
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“But stories are like people, Atticus. Loving them doesn’t make them perfect. You try to cherish their virtues and overlook their flaws. The flaws are still there, though. "
"But you don’t get mad. Not like Pop does."
"No, that’s true, I don’t get mad. Not at stories. They do disappoint me sometimes." He looked at the shelves. "Sometimes, they stab me in the heart.”
― Lovecraft Country
"But you don’t get mad. Not like Pop does."
"No, that’s true, I don’t get mad. Not at stories. They do disappoint me sometimes." He looked at the shelves. "Sometimes, they stab me in the heart.”
― Lovecraft Country
“That’s the horror, the most awful thing: to have a child the world wants to destroy and know that you’re helpless to help him. Nothing worse than that. Nothing worse.”
― Lovecraft Country
― Lovecraft Country
“But stories are like people, Atticus. Loving them doesn't make them perfect. You try to cherish their virtues and overlook their flaws. The flaws are still there, though. But you don't get mad.”
― Lovecraft Country
― Lovecraft Country
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