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The Theory of Clouds
Stephane Audeguy Translated from the French by Timothy Bent
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9780151014286 Hardcover
0151014280
$24.00
272pages
Available
Trim Size:
5-1/2 x 8-1/4
Copyright Year:
2007
Territory:
World English
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Table of Contents
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**DEBUT FICTION**
A kira Kumo, miraculous survivor of Hiroshima, reinvented himself as someone twenty years younger. Now an eccentric couturier and collector of all literature having to do with clouds and meteorology, he hires Virginie, a young librarian, to catalog his library. While she works, he tells her stories of those who have devoted their lives to clouds: the Quaker Luke Howard, contemporary of Napoleon and Goethe, who first classified clouds; the painter Carmichael (based on John Constable), who spent a year painting clouds; and the mysterious Abercrombie, a photographer who cataloged clouds around the world. Virginie’s trip to London in search of the suppressed Abercrombie protocol becomes a quest no less wondrous and strange than Kumo’s own. Sensual, hypnotic, and filled with stories both true and fanciful, The Theory of Clouds is a masterful first novel.
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Biography |
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STEPHANE AUDEGUY lives in Paris, where he teaches the history of cinema and arts.
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General Subjects |
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Fiction- Literary
Fiction- General
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Rights Details |
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| Rights Sold: |
German translation rights sold by French publisher
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Serial/UK: Harcourt
Audio/Performance/Translation: Éditions Gallimard |
Rights Information |
Harcourt Books
An imprint ofHarcourt Trade Publishers
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Harcourt Education Company
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