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Series: The Physiognomy
Genre: SF
ISBN: 0156005050
Pages: 416 pages
Publisher: Eos
Price: 5.99
Reader Rating: 9 out of 10
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The Physiognomy by Jeffrey Ford

Description: In the land of the Well-Built City, study of the body's shape can determine a person's character, uncover his deepest secrets, even foretell the future. And in the hands of an expert like Physiognomist First Class Cley, this solemn intelligence delivers or lost, careers are shaped or shattered, lives are continued or cut away. A man who commands such forces may ignore nearby dark pools of arrogance and corruption - but only for a time. Very soon, Cley will discover the truth about himself and his profession, as his whole world of privilege dissolves into a nightmarish odyssey, careening toward a fate not even the great physiognomist can predict.