The Barnacle sisters--Bell, Bridget, Benita, Beryl, Belinda and Beth--have been raised by their eccentric, self-made father in a fabulous, gigantic Fifth Avenue apartment that, encrusted with Barry Barnacle's scientific collections, feels like a little piece of the Museum of Natural History transpla
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โ Scribed by NEWMAN, W. A.
- Book ID
- 109757485
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 272 KB
- Volume
- 337
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0028-0836
- DOI
- 10.1038/337023c0
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