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Core: A Romance

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Oregon Book Award Finalist for Fiction

In unconventional prose, Core follows a young man’s burning obsession as he descends into darkness—his sanity barely hanging on by a thread—in this classic myth of Hades and Persephone rewritten for a twenty-first century


This intense and compact novel crackles with obsession, betrayal, and madness, and is an Oregon
Book Award Finalist for fiction 2005. As the narrator becomes fixated on his best friend's girlfriend his precarious hold on sanity rapidly ...