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Scott fitzgerald meets wes anderson the village voice in this inventive and witty debut about a young mans. A graduate of columbia universitys mfa program, he is now an assistant professor of english and creative writing at suny new paltz and a graduate lecturer in fiction at sarah lawrence college. The unchangeable spots of leopards king county library. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the unchangeable spots of leopards. In his authors note, how does jansma set the tone for the remainder of the novel. The unchangeable spots of leopards prerecorded audio. He insists that he is a liar, a teller of tall tales, and someone other than himself. The unchangeable spots of leopards hardcover tattered. Perhaps the most telling allusion is the line from an emily dickinson poem tell all the truth, but tell it slant, since jansmas book is a series of slanted tales told by a highly unreliable narrator.
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