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Salamander Paperback - 2002

by Thomas Wharton

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Summoned to Slovakia by an eccentric count who wants to create the "infinite book, " 18th-century London printer Nicholas Flood falls in love with the count's only daughter. Their child, Pica, travels around the world with Flood as he searches for the elusive materials needed for the count's "infinite book."

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Nicholas Flood, an unassuming eighteenth-century London printer, specializes in novelty books -- books that nestle into one another, books comprised of one spare sentence, books that emit the sounds of crashing waves. When his work captures the attention of an eccentric Slovakian count, Flood is summoned to a faraway castle -- a moving labyrinth that embodies the count's obsession with puzzles -- where he is commissioned to create the infinite book, the ultimate never-ending story. Probing the nature of books, the human thirst for knowledge, and the pursuit of immortality, Salamander careens through myth and metaphor as Flood travels the globe in search of materials for the elusive book without end.

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  • Title Salamander
  • Author Thomas Wharton
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Original
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Atria Books, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Publication date 2002-08-06
  • ISBN 9780743444156 / 0743444159
  • Weight 1.09 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.51 x 5.58 x 0.95 in (21.62 x 14.17 x 2.41 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Fantasy fiction, Historical fiction
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Booksense '76 Nov/Dec 2002, 11/01/2002, Page 1

About the author

Thomas Wharton's first novel, Icefields, won the Writers Guild of Alberta Best First Book Award and the Banff Mountain Book Festival Grand Prize. It is available from Washington Square Press. Wharton lives in Edmonton, Canada, with his wife and children.
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