The Egyptologist [Lingua Inglese]: A Novel - Brossura

Phillips, Arthur

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0812972597 ISBN 13: 9780812972597

Casa editrice: Random House Publishing Group, 2005

Riassunto

Obsessed Oxford-educated Egyptologist Ralph Trilipush risks his professional reputation and his fiancée's fortune on a search for the tomb of an apocryphal pharaoh, while an Australian detective embarks on a global search for a murderer, two quests that culminate in an explosive confrontation. By the author of Prague. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“A wildly pleasurable, dazzling reading experience, big in heart and execution: crazed, ecstatic, and entertaining in the deepest sense of the word. Arthur Phillips is a terrifically talented writer, and these pages overflow with wit, mad humor, and, finally, a deep undercurrent of pathos.”
–GEORGE SAUNDERS, author of Pastoralia and Civil War Land in Bad Decline

“What a splendid, funny, bewitching book . . . Beneath Arthur Phillips’s singular wit and peerless comic timing, lies a spot-on parable of twentieth-century self-delusion and the painfully fruitless quest for immortality.”
–GARY SHTEYNGART, author of The Russian Debutante’s Handbook

“The dueling voices of a nostalgic detective and the monomaniacal archaeologist he pursues around the world are only part of the treasure contained in The Egyptologist. Crafted with nuanced erudition and literary flair, Phillips uncovers the hieroglyphs (not hieroglyphics–but you’ll learn that) and building blocks beneath how we construct, interpret, and trust our storytellers. Highly textured, quirky, serpentine, surprising.”
–MATTHEW PEARL, author of The Dante Club
From the Hardcover edition.

L'autore:

Arthur Phillips is the internationally bestselling author of three New York Times Notable Books—Prague, the winner of the Los Angeles Times/Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction; The Song Is You; and The Tragedy of Arthur—and The Egyptologist. He lives in New York.

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• Editore: Random House Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0812972597
• ISBN 13: 9780812972597
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 416