Area X /

"A single-volume hardcover edition that brings together the three volumes of the Southern Reach Trilogy, which were originally published as paperback originals in February, May, and September 2014. Annihilation is the first volume in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, Authority is t...

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Main Author: VanderMeer, Jeff
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
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