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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe

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For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »
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    Chronic City

    Jonathan Lethem

The Quincunx

by Charles Palliser

The Quincunx Cover

ISBN13: 9780345371133
ISBN10: 0345371135
Condition: Standard
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Publisher Comments:

An extraordinary modern novel in the Victorian tradition, Charles Palliser has created something extraordinary--a plot within a plot within a plot of family secrets, mysterious clues, low-born birth, high-reaching immorality, and, always, always the fog-enshrouded, enigmatic character of 19th century — London itself. " You read the first page and down you wonderfully fall, into a long, large, wide world of fiction." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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ISBN:
9780345371133
Author:
Palliser, Charles
Publisher:
Ballantine Books
Author:
Palliser, Charles
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Historical
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
History
Subject:
Historical - General
Subject:
Historical fiction
Subject:
Young men
Subject:
Young men -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Subject:
Mystery fiction
Copyright:
1989
Edition Description:
1st Ballantine Books trade pbk. ed.
Series Volume:
163
Publication Date:
November 1990
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
800
Dimensions:
922x617x140 174
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