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A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters Paperback - 1990
by Julian Barnes
An eccentiric, playfully skewed, surprisingly comprehensive chronicle of life on planet Earth. A novel whose threads of coincidence and hidden connection are woven into a narrative tapestry brilliant with wit, intelligence, and emotion.
Summary
Funny, ironic, erudite, surprising, and not afraid to take a dive overboard into the depths of sorrow and loss. My novel of the year' Nadime GordimerBeginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters presents a surprising, subversive, fictional history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Noah disembarks from his ark but he and his Voyage are not forgotten: they are revisited in on other centuries and other climes - by a Victorian spinster mourning her father, by an American astronaut on an obsessive personal mission. We journey to the Titanic, to the Amazon, to the raft of the Medusa, and to an ecclesiastical court in medieval France where a bizarre case is about to begin...This is no ordinary history, but something stranger, a challenge and a delight for the reader's imagination. Ambitious yet accessible, witty and playfully serious, this is the work of a brilliant novelist.
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This is, in short, a complete, unsettling, and frequently exhilarating vision of the world, starting with the voyage of Noah's ark and ending with a sneak preview of heaven!
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- Title A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
- Author Julian Barnes
- Binding Paperback
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- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1990-11-27
- ISBN 9780679731375 / 0679731377
- Weight 0.52 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 8.03 x 5.14 x 0.74 in (20.40 x 13.06 x 1.88 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects World history - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 90050161
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Publishers Weekly, 10/26/1990, Page 0
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