The Confusion: The Baroque Cycle - Hardcover

Stephenson, Neal

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060523867 ISBN 13: 9780060523862

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 2004

Synopsis

While a group of Barbary galley slaves plots to escape their lives of servitude on board a seventeenth-century pirate ship, spy and socialite Eliza is forcibly returned to the court of the Sun King, where she becomes enmeshed in a web of international machinations. By the author of Cryptonomicon. 250,000 first printing.

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Review:

"Ideas about currency and calculus become thrilling because of the way Stephenson incorporates them into his story... Huge in scope - rich in detail... This weird, wonderful collision of scholarship and storytelling has no peer" (Time Out)

"A rip-roaring, swashbuckling Romance with a capital R ... A blood-soaked, silver-plated depiction of 17th-century life from both ends of the economic scale, and with enough headlong, balls-to-the-wall buccaneering and Machiavellian plotting to satiate the most jaded of palates" (Ink)

"Stephenson excels in marrying geekspeak wtih riotous action. When he describes a battle or a duel, his prose acquires thrilling panache... Jack Shaftoe is magnificent, a swashbuckling hero with a foul mouth and few morals, and his adventures are most appealing" (Guardian)

"The definitive historical-sci-fi-epic-pirate-comedy-punk-love story. No easy feat, that" (Entertainment Weekly)

From the Publisher:

Neal Stephenson follows his acclaimed historical novel, Quicksilver, with the extraordinary second volume of the Baroque Cycle

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0060523867
• ISBN 13: 9780060523862
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 816