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In his series of massey lectures, eventually published as a book the truth about stories 2003, king tells. King is the writer of many of my favorite works including the very funny medicine river that was made into a tv movie with graham. King s book covers topics as diverse as racism and. King is the writer of many of my favorite works including the very. We believe in the amis story in guinea bissau sought to tell a story different from the two narratives we so often hear from africa, that of the horrors or that of the exotic.
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