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Hocus Pocus
[Paperback - 1997]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Additional Category: Humorous Fiction - Classics
Publisher: Berkley | ISBN: 9780425161296 | Pages: 336
Shipping Weight: .278 | Dimensions: 5.14 x .83 x 7.92 inches

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Slaughterhouse-Five comes an irresistible novel that combines “clever wit with keen social observation...[and] re-establishes Mr. Vonnegut’s place as the Mark Twain of our times” (Atlanta Journal & Constitution).

Here is the adventure of Eugene Debs Hartke. He’s a Vietnam veteran, a jazz pianist, a college professor, and a prognosticator of the apocalypse (and other things Earth-shattering). But that’s neither here nor there. Because at Tarkington College—where he teaches—the excrement is about to hit the air-conditioning. And it’s all Eugene’s fault.

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