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A Case of Curiosities

A Case of Curiosities

A Case of Curiosities
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A Case of Curiosities

by Kurzweil, Allen

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ISBN 13
9780151157938
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Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Harcourt, 1992. Imaginative novel by author who made Granta magazine;'s list of the 20 best young writers in the US. In the late 18th century France, a 12-year-old farm boy is taken under the wing of Count of Tournay, a defrocked priest. Light bump to one corner.. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book.

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In France, on the eve of the Revolution, a young man named Claude Page sets out to become the most ingenious and daring inventor of his time. In the course of a career filled with violence and passion, Claude learns the arts of enameling and watchmaking from an irascible, defrocked abbé, apprentices himself to a pornographic bookseller, and applies his erotic erudition to the seduction of the wife of an impotent wigmaker. But it is Claude's greatest device-a talking mechanical head-that both crowns his career and leads to an execution as tragic as that of Marie Antoinette, and far more bizarre. Hailed by critics for the shimmering brilliance of its inventions and its uncanny fidelity to the textures of the past, A Case of Curiosities places Allen Kurzweil securely in the ranks of the finest literary artists of our time.

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Title
A Case of Curiosities
Author
Kurzweil, Allen
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Fine
Edition
First Edition, First Printing
ISBN 10
0151157936
ISBN 13
9780151157938
Publisher
Harcourt
Place of Publication
Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
Date Published
1992
Keywords
FRANCE FICTION HISTORICAL
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Literature; Author K;

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