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A history of the world in 10 1/2 chapters

1st Vintage international ed.
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Funny, ironic, erudite, surprising, and not afraid to take a dive overboard into the depths of sorrow and loss. My novel of the year' Nadime GordimerBeginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters presents a surprising, subversive, fictional history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Noah disembarks from his ark but he and his Voyage are not forgotten: they are revisited in on other centuries and other climes - by a Victorian spinster mourning her father, by an American astronaut on an obsessive personal mission. We journey to the Titanic, to the Amazon, to the raft of the Medusa, and to an ecclesiastical court in medieval France where a bizarre case is about to begin...This is no ordinary history, but something stranger, a challenge and a delight for the reader's imagination. Ambitious yet accessible, witty and playfully serious, this is the work of a brilliant novelist.

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Vintage Books
Language
English
Pages
307

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A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
2010, Random House Publishing Group
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A history of the world in 10 1/2 chapters
1995, Cambridge University Press
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Istoria to kosmou se 10 1/2 kephalea.
1992, Psychogios
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A history of the world in10 1/2 chapters.
1990, Clio
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A history of the world in 10 1/2 chapters
1990, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage international ed.
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A history of the world in 10 1/2 chapters
1989, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
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New York

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [308]).

Series
Vintage international

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6052.A6657 H5 1990, PR6052.A6657H5 1990

The Physical Object

Pagination
307, [1] p. ;
Number of pages
307

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1888717M
ISBN 10
0679731377
LCCN
90050161
Library Thing
7133
Goodreads
43980

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