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In the course of a single week, Devereaux will have his nose mangled by an angry colleague, imagine his wife is having an affair with his dean, wonder if a curvaceous adjunct is trying to seduce him with peach pits, and threaten to execute a goose on local television. All this whileProdukt Straight Man (Russo Richard)(Paperback) má EAN kód 9780375701900.
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