Threshold
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Threshold (2020)

Rob Doyle

Others: Positive

Rob has spent most of his confusing adult life wandering, writing, and imbibing literature and narcotics in equally vast doses. Now, stranded between reckless youth and middle age, between exaltation and despair, his travels have acquired a de facto purpose: the immemorial quest for transcendent meaning.

ISBN:
9781526607089
Length:
336 pages

Genres: romance

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