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Diary of an Oxygen Thief
โ Scribed by Anonymous
- Publisher
- Pocket Books;Gallery Books
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 77 KB
- Edition
- 1. Gallery books trade paperback edition
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Hurt people hurt people.
Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographers assistant and, somehow, they met in Bright Lights, Big City. Hes blinded by love. She by ambition. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is an honest, hilarious, and heartrending novel, but above all, a very realistic account of what we do to each other and what we allow to have done to us.
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