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At a dinner party hosted by a wealthy New Yorker, a guest receives a gold adze, the coveted prize in a worm race. When the man dies the next day, he bequeaths, according to a stipulation in his will, the bulk of his fortune to the adze's possessor, provided he answer three mysterious questions relating to the artifact's history. In his search the owner encounters a menagerie of eccentric personalities: an ancient revolutionary in a Parisian prison, a ludicrous pair of gibberish-speaking brothers, and customs officials who spend their time reading contraband materials. He soon finds himself immersed in the centuries-long history of a persecuted religious sect and in an odyssey that begins in a forgotten fog-covered town in Scotland and ends on the ocean floor off the coast of an uncharted French island.
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- Title The Conversions
- Author Harry Mathews; Harry Matthews
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Subsequent
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dalkey Archive Press, Normal, IL
- Date 1997-10
- ISBN 9781564781666 / 1564781666
- Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 8.51 x 5.5 x 0.59 in (21.62 x 13.97 x 1.50 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Adventure stories, Eccentrics and eccentricities - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97023674
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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