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. Spine slant, slight surl to top corners of front wrapper.. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC). Pictorial Wrappers. Near 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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Bookseller: Nothing Like A Good Book (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1000548
Title: A Case of Curiosities
Author: Kurzweil, Allen
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Edition: Advanced Reading Copy (ARC)
ISBN 10: 0151157936
ISBN 13: 9780151157938
Publisher: Harcourt
Place of Publication: Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1992
Keywords: FRANCE FICTION HISTORICAL
Bookseller catalogs: Literature; Proofs/Arcs; Author K;

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