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Speaking With The Angel by Nick Hornby

Speaking With The Angel

by Nick Hornby
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  • Feb 2001, 256 pages
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Reprinted from Speaking With the Angel edited by Nick Hornby by permission of Riverhead, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc.  Copyright © Nick Hornby, 2001. All rights reserved. This excerpt, or any parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission.

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