Oblivion
Josephine Hart. Penguin Books, $10.95 (208pp) ISBN 978-0-14-025318-4
The author of Damage and Sin weighs in with another novel of passion and obsession. (May)
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Reviewed on: 04/28/1997
Genre: Fiction
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