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Dhalgren Summary & Study Guide Description
Dhalgren Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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Dhalgren Plot Summary
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The man and woman meet in a cave. She considers him to be very worldly and educated since he has traveled so much. When she asks what he would like to change in the world, he says nothing. He wants to go to Bellona. She tells him that he doesn't know who he is and that he has to be older than twenty seven if he was born in 1948. After they make love they leave the cave. She tells him to go away, so he turns and runs.
Dahlgren, by Samuel R. Delany, is billed as a city book and science fiction novel. The city of Bellona is located somewhere in the middle of the United States. It was a city of two million people until something happened. As a result, there were riots and fires and most of the population fled. The remaining one thousand people live in...
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