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Book Title: Hard Sayings : the Rhetoric of Christian Orthodoxy in Late Modern Fiction
Item Length: 9in.
Item Height: 1.1in.
Item Width: 6in.
Author: Thomas F. Haddox
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: American / General, Christianity / Literature & the Arts
Publisher: The Ohio State University Press
Publication Year: 2020
Genre: Religion, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 12.3 Oz
Number of Pages: 236 Pages
