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The Hundred-Year House by Rebecca Makkai

The Hundred-Year House

by Rebecca Makkai
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  • Jul 10, 2014, 352 pages
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  • May 2015, 352 pages
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On the bright side, it was the course she wished she could have taken herself, once upon a time. Because if there was a way to kill a ghost story, this was it. What the stake did to the heart of the vampire, literary analysis could surely accomplish for the legend of Violet Devohr.

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From The Hundred-Year House by Rebecca Makkai. Reprinted by arrangement with Viking, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC. Copyright © 2014 by Rebecca Makkai Freeman.

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