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Solitaire Mystery A Novel about Family & Destiny
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Do you enjoy books whose interwoven stories surprise and delight? Do you like a little magic with your realism? Jostein Gaarder's wonderful novel The Solitaire Mystery is: the travels of a boy with his father to Greece, "homeland of the philosophers", in search of the mother/wife who has left them; a tiny book embedded in a sticky-bun, which the boy reads with a magnifying glass given him by a dwarf; the story of the baker of that sticky-bun; 52 playing cards plus a Joker... And all those stories come together in a most satisfying conclusion. I read it to my adolescent sons, and we all found it fascinating.
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Should you ever give into the temptation to pretend to write a book, pretend to write this one. It's intellectual enough to boost your reputation, enough fun to boost your reputation with your friends, improbable enough that no one will imagine you made it up, and obscure enough that no one should catch on too quickly.
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Product Details
ISBN:
9780425159996
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
11/01/1997
Publisher:
PENGUIN PUTNAM TRADE
Pages:
336
Height:
8.00 in.
Width:
5.09 in.
Thickness:
.78 in.
Age Range:
from 18 and up
Grade Range:
from 12
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
1996
UPC Code:
2800425159998
Author:
Jostein Gaarder
Subject:
Family
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Fantastic fiction
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Fantasy fiction
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Family -- Fiction.
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Fiction
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