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In this book, each second is an age, every cell a universe. Through a series of stories, the author illustrates the paradoxes of space and time. Estranged lovers forever travelling parallel highways, the hunter and lion trapped at each others throats and victims linked in mutual pursuit.
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13 editions · 3 languages- Other · English · 2012T ZeroHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company · 168 pages · 9780544133563
- Other · English · 2012T ZeroHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers · 9781299903661
- Other · English · 2000T ZeroMacmillan Publishing Company · 9780020182108
- Other · English · 1983Time and the hunterAbacus · 152 pages · 9780349104850
- Other · English · 1976T ZeroHarperCollins Publishers · 9780544312500
- Other · English · 1976t zeroHarcourt Brace Jovanovich · 152 pages · 9780156924009
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