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100 1  Conn, Brian,|d1976-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
       n2009064276 
245 14 The Fixed Stars :|bThirty-Seven Emblems for the Perilous 
       Season. 
264  1 Tuscaloosa :|bUniversity of Alabama Press,|c2010. 
300    1 online resource (313 pages) 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    computer|bc|2rdamedia 
338    online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 
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505 0  Contents; 1. The Ropemaker's Daughter; 2. Ablution in 
       Helical Structure; 3. The Green Door; 4. John's Day; 5. 
       The Snow Pageant; 6. Mercury. 
520    Juxtaposing barbarity and whimsy, Brian Conn's The Fixed 
       Stars is a novel that has the tenor of a contemporary 
       fable with nearly the same dreamlike logic. At the novel's
       heart are the John's Day celebration and the interactions 
       of a small community dealing with a mystery disease. 
       Routinely citizens are quarantined and then reintegrated 
       into society in rituals marked by a haunting brutality. 
       The infected and the healthy alike are quarantined. In a 
       culture that has retreated from urbanism into a more 
       pastoral society, the woman who nurtures spiders and the 
       man who spins hemp exist alongside the. 
588 0  Print version record. 
590    eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic 
       Collection - North America 
650  0 Plague|vFiction.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
       sh2008109306 
650  0 Social problems|vFiction.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       subjects/sh2008111804 
650  7 Plague.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1065045 
650  7 Social problems.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
       1122778 
655  4 Electronic books. 
655  7 Fiction.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423787 
655  7 Fiction.|2lcgft|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms
       /gf2014026339 
776 08 |iPrint version:|aConn, Brian.|tFixed Stars : Thirty-Seven
       Emblems for the Perilous Season.|dTuscaloosa : The 
       University of Alabama Press, ©2010|z9781573661539 
856 40 |uhttps://rider.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://
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       db=nlebk&AN=420351|zOnline eBook. Access restricted to 
       current Rider University students, faculty, and staff. 
856 42 |3Instructions for reading/downloading this eBook|uhttp://
       guides.rider.edu/ebooks/ebsco 
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