Posted by Jill Owens, October 21st, 2009 No CommentsFiled under:Interviews. Sam Savage\’s first novel, Firmin, chronicled the coming-of-age misadventures of a very literate rat living in a bookstore in Boston\’s Scollay Square. Garnering praise from authors and critics (\”Firmin is a hero in the Dickensian mode…with the sardonic shadings of Vonnegut, and the same explicit tenderness,\” wrote the Los Angeles Times), it was an unexpected success and a bookseller favorite of 2006. The Cry of the Sl
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