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Night lamp / Jack Vance.
LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Vance, J.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vance, Jack, 1916-2013.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Birthparents--Fiction.
- Birthparents.
- Orphans--Fiction.
- Orphans.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 380 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Book club edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : TOR, 1996.
- Summary:
- A young man's quest to discover the secret of his own origin, hidden by his adoptive parents and lost with their death. He is Jaro, who as a child killed his wounded mother at her request. He grows up to be a space explorer and as he pursues his personal mission meets his father.
- Notes:
- "A Tom Doherty Associates book."
- Jacket art by Vladimir Nenov.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy has dustjacket.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 23961
- ISBN:
- 0312856857
- 9780312856854
- OCLC:
- 965764759
- Publisher Number:
- 14438 Science Fiction Book Club
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