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152 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781905548606
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Friday
Publication date: 04 December 1984
Description
The fourth collection of hilarious selections taken from the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for the best of bad fiction. The world-famous competition seeks to find the most atrocious opening sentence to a hypothetical lousy novel. Here are entries ...
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152 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781905548606
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Friday
Publication date: 04 December 1984
Description
The fourth collection of hilarious selections taken from the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for the best of bad fiction. The world-famous competition seeks to find the most atrocious opening sentence to a hypothetical lousy novel. Here are entries ...