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The Visible World by Mark Slouka

The Visible World

by Mark Slouka
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  • Apr 19, 2007, 256 pages
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  • Mar 2008, 256 pages
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But I could never go there. All I could do was peer from above as the people went about their day, unaware that with every step, every kiss, every tram ticket tossed to the curb, they were constructing the world that would shape my own.

Copyright © 2007 by Mark Slouka. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company.

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