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    Heidi Julavitz: The Mineral Palace

    This remarkable first novel offers an occasion to pay tribute to its late editor, and to salute its young author, whose imagery and vision promise an unusual career.

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    By Michael Silverblatt • Dec 28, 2000 • 30m Listen

    The Mineral Palace (Putnam)

    The publication of this remarkable first novel offers an occasion to pay tribute to its editor, Faith Sale, who died this year, and to salute its young author, Heidi Julavitz, whose startling imagery and dark vision promise an unusual career.

    Read an excerpt from The Mineral Palace.

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