A History of the World in 10 1/2 chapters
by Julian Barnes | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0330313991 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0330313991 Global Overview for this book
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Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters presents a surprising and 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.
Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters presents a surprising and 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.
Journal Entry 2 by kittiwake at BCUK UnConvention 2017 📚 in Loughborough, Leicestershire United Kingdom on Friday, September 22, 2017
Released 6 yrs ago (9/21/2017 UTC) at BCUK UnConvention 2017 📚 in Loughborough, Leicestershire United Kingdom
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Journal Entry 3 by 
shnedwards
at Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Sunday, September 24, 2017
shnedwards at Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Sunday, September 24, 2017
Picked up from the book buffet. Thanks for bringing it to the Unconvention!
I'm sure this is all very clever but I'm too distracted to pick up the subtleties. I enjoyed some of the stories, skipped the boring ones.
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Released 1 yr ago (5/20/2022 UTC) at Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom
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