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    My Father's Monkey, A Memoir
    My Father's Monkey, A Memoir
    My Father's Monkey, A Memoir
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    My Father's Monkey, A Memoir

    By Marc Colten

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    This memoir is about my family's long history with tobacco and the effect it had on my parents and myself. It is not fiction, but a real history of one thread running through my life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMarc Colten
    Release dateFeb 12, 2014
    ISBN9781310553424
    My Father's Monkey, A Memoir
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    Marc Colten

    Marc Colten was born in 1950 in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York. His was influenced by the Cold War and the divisiveness of the Viet-Nam war. His literary influences were the novels of George Orwell and John LeCarre and the short stories of Saki and John Collier.

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