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Towers may be recreated in book (3,6)

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I believe the answer is:

tom sawyer

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'book' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't see how they can define each other.

'towers may be recreated' is the wordplay.
'be recreated' is an anagram indicator.
'towers'+'may'='towersmay'
'towersmay' anagrammed gives 'TOM SAWYER'.

'in' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for tom sawyer that I've seen before include "American boy" , "Mark Twain character" , "Boy hero of Mark Twain novel" , "Mark Twain's adventurous boy" , "a resident of St Petersburg" .)

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