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Timothy is a tortoise whose real life was observed by the eighteenth-century English curate Gilbert White. Now, in Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile Verlyn Klinkenborg gives the tortoise a voice, and the happy result is a book filled with shrewd observations about humanity. Find one of his wise sayings on the e-postcard below, then fill out the fields to tell a friend about this insightful reptile who will both surprise and delight.

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"Verlyn Klinkenborg has imagined his way into the spirit and voice of a long-dead turtle. If only we humans were as wise as Klinkenborg's ancient female—as calm as she in adversity, as poetic in our speech, as perceptive and patient about all that happens around us. Timothy is a terrific book, an astonishing feat of the imagination." —Kent Haruf, author of Plainsong

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