Mr Mee - Brossura

Crumey, Andrew

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1909232947 ISBN 13: 9781909232945

Casa editrice: Dedalus Ltd, 2014

Riassunto

Elderly Scottish bookworm Mr Mee searches the Internet for the legendary Rosier's Encyclopaedia which supposedly outlines an 18th-century quantum theory. Instead he enters a strange new world of cyber-hoaxers and online pornography. Meanwhile university lecturer Dr Petrie, an expert on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, recounts his infatuation with one of his own students. And in the third strand of this unique comedy of ideas, Rousseau's Laurel-and-Hardy-like neighbours Ferrand and Minard hold the key to Rosier's Encyclopaedia, Rousseau's madness, and Mr Mee himself. Combining history and fantasy, philosophy and farce, Crumey's novel is an intellectual page-turner that keeps the reader laughing and guessing to the end.

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Recensione

This book is fabulous stuff: erudite but not patronising, elegantly and simply written, jumping ambitiously across centuries but with a good dash of down-to-earth lust for entertainment. More than once, Crumey make his reader pause, rest the book in his lap, and acknowledg that life really is quite extraordinary. He deserves to be better known. --The Times

Mr Mee is not only an intellectual treat but a moving meditation on aspiration and desire. --Hilary Mantel in The New York Times

Like a trompe l'oeil painting, or a puzzle that invites us to draw at least two contradictory, yet equally plausible conclusions, Mr Mee disturbs as it diverts, charms as it challenges. --The Washington Times

L'autore

Andrew Crumey has a PhD in theoretical physics and is literary editor of Scotland On Sunday. His novels have been translated widely, and have won several prizes.

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• Editore: Dedalus Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1909232947
• ISBN 13: 9781909232945
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 344