A Case of Curiosities - Softcover

Kurzweil, Allen

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140167846 ISBN 13: 9780140167849

Publisher: Penguin, 1993

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Tells of the bizarre adventures of an 18th-century watchmaker and mechanical wizard - Claude Page. Maimed by surgery at the age of 12, his manual dexterity destines him to become one of Europe's most gifted inventors when he acquires the skills of the enamelist and watchmaker.

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Review:

"Brilliantly playful . . . More like a joint effort by Henry Fielding and John Barth, it is clever indeed but also riotous, melodramatic and erotic, full of lore and lewdness and crackling with ideas and exhilarated imagination."-Chicago Tribune
PRAISE FOR" A CASE OF CURIOSITIES"
"What John Fowles did for the 19th century with The French Lieutenant's Woman and Umberto Eco did for the 14th with The Name of the Rose . . . Kurzweil now does for the late 18th century with A Case of Curiosities. [A] captivating novel."-San Francisco Chronicle

About the Author:

Allen Kurzweil was named a "Best Young American Novelist" by Granta for A Case of Curiosities, his first novel. He has been the recipient of Guggenheim and Fullbright Fellowships, and a 1999 Fellow of the New York Public Library for Scholars and Writers. His fiction has been honored in the United States, France, Italy, and Ireland. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

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