โ Scribed by Terrence Holt
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"This is the secret book at the heart of American letters. Holt is one of the finest American writers alive."--Junot Diaz In the Valley of the Kings marks the extraordinary debut of Terrence Holt, who fifteen years ago abandoned a promising writing career to practice medicine. Moved by his patients' valor in the face of death, seeking to comprehend the mysteries revealed at their bedside, Holt has taken up fiction again. He emerges now with this astonishing collection of one novella and seven short stories that explore the farthest reaches of the imagination in a style that recalls the nineteenth-century American masters.
Holt leaps across genres and millennia, from small-town America to deep space, daring his readers to journey with him into realms as mysterious as they are unforgettable. The opening story, "'? ?????," is a chilling account of the last days of the human race, as the hospitalization of a little girl in a New England town heralds a...
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