### From Kirkus Reviews G-R-R-I-S-L-Y...by the author of A Splendid Chaos (1988). Horrible as this is, it has redeeming values, one being its warning against addictive pleasures and too much partying. When down-at-heels screenwriter Tom Prentice identifies his ex-wife Amy in the morgue, she's 50 po
John Shirley - Wetbones
✍ Scribed by Wetbones (epub)
- Publisher
- Leisure Books
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 173 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0585298920
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