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Rent The Cement Garden
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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: Jan 1994
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $15.00
Pages: 160
Synopsis
In this tour de force of psychological unease--now a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sinead Cusack--McEwan excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgetting--or denying. 'Possesses the suspense and chilling impact of Lord of the Flies.'--Washington Post Book World.
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