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Dhalgren (Paperback)

By: Samuel R. Delany (Author)

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First line

to wound the autumnal city.
So howled out for the world to give him a name.
The in-dark answered with wind.
All you know I know: careening astronauts and bank clerks glancing at the clock before lunch; actresses scowling at light-ringed mirrors and freight elevator operators grinding a thumbful of grease on a steel handle; student riots; know that dark women in bodegas shook their heads last week because in six months prices have risen outlandishly; how coffee tastes after you've held it in your mouth, cold, a whole minute.
A whole minute he squatted, pebbles clutched with his left foot (the bare one), listening to his breath sound tumble down the ledges.
Beyond a leafy arras, reflected moonlight flittered.

Publisher's note

Journeying to the central United States city of Bellona, where all have fled save madmen and criminals, a poet and adventurer known only as the Kid wonders at the strange portents that appear in the city's cloud-covered sky.

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In the future America, little has changed save for the fact that there are two moons in the night sky and that several of the cities are given over to anarchism. Arriving in Bellona, one of these cities, the Kid invents himself as an artist, in particular a writer, who writes the book "Dhalgren". Maybe.

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