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and a damning indictment of how an ambitious young writer expropriated another man’s ideas and then engaged in an elaborate cover-up of 'The Pickwick Papers'’ true origin

Set in New York during the Depression and probably West's most powerful work

With this information driving him forward

about nothing but itself — or even about nothing at all — postmodernist fiction in McHale’s construction of it proves to be about (among other things) those handy literary perennials

The Fish Book Condition:Very Good and a damning indictment ofErnest Gohs close encounters with these creatures of the slimy scaly kind began in the longkangs around the Siglap kampong where he spent much of his early childhood. Armed with nothing but empty milk tins and his bare hands, he scooped up whatever went past tadpoles, guppies and the occasional frog. Prized possessions they were then. Today, fish continue to fascinate millions of hobbyists worldwide, turning Singapore into the worlds ornamental fish