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The tears of the salamander

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Description: When Alfredo, a twelve-year-old choir boy in eighteenth-century Italy, loses his family in a fire, he goes to live with Uncle Giorgio, who he discovers is a sorcerer in control of the fires of Mt. Etna with sinister plans for his nephew.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [2003]
Call number: 660963
Creator: Dickinson, Peter (1927-2015)(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 0385730985; 9780385730983; 0385901259; 9780385901253; 9781417642885; 1417642882
Provenance: Purchased from Kim Stanley Robinson, August 2025. From the library of Kim Stanley Robinson.
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In this letter Hanchak talks about his grandfather Wallace Stevens. He states "I have precious little knowledge of my grandfather for any useful purpose, W. S. having died when I was 8 yrs. old." He goes on to say that Wallace Stevens did not approve of his daughters' marriage so Hanchak did not spend much time with his grandfather.

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