Freddy's Book

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“Combines the fascination of a fairy tale... with beautifully defined characters and an underlying seriousness of purpose that makes it something far more important... Freddy’s Book is the work of a master storyteller.” — Anne Tyler

In a gloomy mansion in Madison, Wisconsin, a sheltered and sensitive young man slips a visiting professor his secret manuscript — a staggering and beautiful fantasy of knights, knaves, and fools, a rich tale of timeless battles with the devil himself over power and destiny.

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John Champlin Gardner

John Champlin Gardner, Jr. (1933–1982) was a well-known and controversial American novelist and university professor, best known for his novel Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf myth. John Gardner's best known novels include: The Sunlight Dialogues, a novel about a brooding, disenchanted policeman who is asked to…

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