An edition of Panama (1978)

Panama

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An edition of Panama (1978)

Panama

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Paris, 1892. The American historian Henry Adams, grandson of one President and great-grandson of another, is looking for Miriam Talbott, a young American woman studying in Paris. Miriam is alive in ways Adams can scarcely remember being: bright, beguiling, talented, and attractive. She draws him out of the "posthumous" life he has led since the suicide of his wife, Clover, seven years before. But when he goes looking for Miriam, no one at her given address has seen her.

And when another woman's body is fished out of the Seine and identified as hers, Adams knows she is in trouble and needs his assistance. Adams soon discovers that Miriam's disappearance is somehow involved with the great Panama Affair that threatens to engulf France. Before it went bankrupt, the French Panama Canal Company had bribed nearly half the members of the Chamber of Deputies to gain legislation favorable to its interests.

Now one director of the company has been found dead; other directors flee; and for a week, the entire city awaits the revelation of the names of the chequards, the long list of deputies witless enough to have accepted their bribes in the form of checks.

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Publisher
Vintage Books
Language
English
Pages
175

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Cover of: Panama
Panama
1995, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage contemporaries ed.
Cover of: Panama
Panama
May 1, 1992, Christian Bourgois
Paperback
Cover of: Panama
Panama
April 5, 1990, Minerva
Paperback
Cover of: Panama
Panama
1979, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: Panama
Panama
1979, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: Panama
Panama
1978, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Panama
Panama
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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Series
Vintage contemporaries

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3563.A3114 P36 1995, PS3563.A3114P36 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
175 p. ;
Number of pages
175

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1115552M
ISBN 10
0679752919
LCCN
94041583
Library Thing
146490
Goodreads
51603

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