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Dream of Venus (or Living Pictures)

by Miles Beller

ISBN13: 9780966348002
ISBN10: 0966348001
Condition: Standard
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Set in the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair, "Dream of Venus (or Living Pictures)", is a speculative history reanimating the last great international fair this world would ever know. Meshing actualities with invention, it renders a future past that is nostalgic and predictive, an account of hope and longing at the onset of World War II. Focusing on Zeke Lichtenquist — an artist moved into the Fair's Town of Tomorrow — the book takes us on a search for authenticity and meaning. Franklin Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, and the Fair's president Grover Whalen all pop in and out, players in a fabled New York of the late 1930's.

This work of cyber-fiction and alternative history has taken its title from Salvadore Dali's surrealistic pavilion featured at the fair.

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stevegordon, December 14, 2008 (view all comments by stevegordon)
Fans of Pynchon, Cosgrove, and Borges will find DREAM OF VENUS a profoundly engaging novel of past, present, and future. Indeed, like Pynchon, Beller is a mysterious presence, whose writing conjures simultaneous levels of truth, accountability, and remove.
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ISBN:
9780966348002
Subtitle:
((or Living pictures) )
Foreword:
Beller, Miles
Author:
Beller, Miles
Publisher:
CM Publishing
Location:
Beverly Hills, Ca. :
Subject:
Historical
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Historical fiction
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Volume:
#90-60
Publication Date:
c2000
Binding:
Trade Cloth
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
xx, 298 p.
Dimensions:
9.26x6.29x1.19 in. 1.48 lbs.
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