Parametri
- 365pagine
- 13 ore di lettura
Maggiori informazioni sul libro
Narrated by Alexander Short, a stylish young reference librarian with arcane interests, this novel takes readers through a card catalog of desperation, delight, intrigue, and theft. It’s a suspenseful tale that unfolds with clock-maker precision and storytelling surprises. The narrative begins with Alexander facing job insecurity and a troubled marriage. Enter the uniquely named Henry James Jesson III, a bibliophile who hires Alexander for after-hours research. The task involves reconstructing an incomplete cabinet of wonders that chronicles the life of a mysterious eighteenth-century inventor. As the investigation intensifies, Alexander uncovers numerous secrets hidden within Jesson’s elegant Manhattan townhouse. Armed with a notebook, he dives deep into the search, only to find that the void in the cabinet mirrors an emptiness in his own heart. This delicious tale features quirky colleagues, erotic pop-ups, deviant passions, and miraculous thefts, presenting a grand and complicated “timepiece” told with a devilish sense of fun. The colophon notes a tiny gear, a freehand rendering of an escapement wheel from Breguet’s masterpiece pocket watch, which remains lost since its theft from a Jerusalem museum in 1983.
Acquisto del libro
L'orologio di Maria Antonietta, Allen Kurzweil
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2002
- product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
- (In brossura)
Metodi di pagamento
Qui potrebbe esserci la tua recensione.
- Titolo
- L'orologio di Maria Antonietta
- Lingua
- Italiano
- Autori
- Allen Kurzweil
- Editore
- Bompiani
- Pubblicato
- 2002
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 365
- ISBN10
- 8845252493
- ISBN13
- 9788845252495
- Serie
- Titolo originale
- The grand complication
- Valutazione
- 3,1 su 5
- Descrizione
- Narrated by Alexander Short, a stylish young reference librarian with arcane interests, this novel takes readers through a card catalog of desperation, delight, intrigue, and theft. It’s a suspenseful tale that unfolds with clock-maker precision and storytelling surprises. The narrative begins with Alexander facing job insecurity and a troubled marriage. Enter the uniquely named Henry James Jesson III, a bibliophile who hires Alexander for after-hours research. The task involves reconstructing an incomplete cabinet of wonders that chronicles the life of a mysterious eighteenth-century inventor. As the investigation intensifies, Alexander uncovers numerous secrets hidden within Jesson’s elegant Manhattan townhouse. Armed with a notebook, he dives deep into the search, only to find that the void in the cabinet mirrors an emptiness in his own heart. This delicious tale features quirky colleagues, erotic pop-ups, deviant passions, and miraculous thefts, presenting a grand and complicated “timepiece” told with a devilish sense of fun. The colophon notes a tiny gear, a freehand rendering of an escapement wheel from Breguet’s masterpiece pocket watch, which remains lost since its theft from a Jerusalem museum in 1983.