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978-1-84659-064-1
Fiction
February 2009
Paperback
13 x 20 cm
220pp
£7.99

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The Legend of Sander Grant: About the Author

Marc Phillips was born in Texas. He has won many awards for his short fiction (including the Fish Prize, the Raymond Carver Editor's Choice and USA Today's Notable Writer of the Year Award, as well as two nominations for the Pushcart Prize). He lives on Galveston Island, Texas. This is his first novel.

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"Blending a kind of magic realism with epic Irving-esque American yarn-spinning, this debut novel immediately draws you into its strange world where giants descended from angels live amongst humans ... Marc Phillips has a great turn of phrase, [and] has...

Excerpts

Sander is a giant. But people around Dixon are used to that. His daddy was a giant, and his daddy's dad, and so on.

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