A Case of Curiosities
by Kurzweil, Allen
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- Hardcover
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- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0151157936
- ISBN 13
- 9780151157938
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Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Eureka Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 218960
- Title
- A Case of Curiosities
- Author
- Kurzweil, Allen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0151157936
- ISBN 13
- 9780151157938
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
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