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"Free Live Free," said the newspaper ad, and the out-of-work detective Jim Stubb, the occultist Madame Serpentina, the salesman Ozzie Barnes, and the overweight prostitute Candy Garth are brought together to live for a time in Free's old house, a house scheduled for demolition to make way for a highway.
Free drops mysterious hints of his exile from his homeland, and of the lost key to his return. And so when demolition occurs and Free disappears, the four make a pact to continue the search, which ultimately takes them far beyond their wildest dreams.
This is character-driven science fiction at its best by a writer whom, at the time of its first publication, the Chicago Sun-Times called "science fiction's best genuine novelist."
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Quotes by Gene Wolfe
From WikiquoteWhen a tree is very old, yet still lives, sometimes the limbs are strangely twisted.
No man has a home unless he is master of a place where he must please no one—a place where he can go and lock the door behind him.
“That the environment should respond to human thought. That is the core of magic and the oldest dream of mankind.”
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