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The Book of Sorrows (Sequel to The Book of the Dun Cow)

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Brett Alan Dewing
Aug 09, 2012
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There is no more aptly titled novel than The Book of Sorrows by the incomparable Walter Wangerin, Jr.  A sequel to his massively popular The Book of the Dun Cow, Sorrows picks up in the wake of that book's climactic events.  In a pre-Adam world, the animals are given the task of being the Keepers of great evil, dwelling beneath the earth's surface.  And…

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