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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The Antiquarian
Author: Gustavo Faverón PatriauPublisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802192858
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
“Riddle by riddle, a murder confession unspools” in this “delightfully macabre” literary thriller of madness, mystery, and antique books (The New York Times). Three years have passed since Gustavo, a renowned psycholinguist, last spoke to his closest friend, Daniel, who has been interned in a psychiatric ward after brutally murdering his fiancée and attempting suicide. When Daniel unexpectedly calls to confess the truth behind the crime, Gustavo’s long buried fraternal loyalty draws him into the center of a quixotic, mystifying investigation through an underground network of antiquarian dealers. While Daniel reveals his unsettling story using fragments of fables, novels, and historical allusions, Gustavo begins to retrace the past for clues: from their early college days exploring dust-filled libraries and exotic brothels to Daniel’s intimate attachment to his sickly younger sister and his dealings as a book collector. Soon, Gustavo must deduce a complex series of events from allegories that are more real than police reports and metaphors more revealing than evidence. And when a woman in the ward is found murdered, Daniel is declared the prime suspect, and Gustavo plummets deeper into the mysterious case. “An ambitious, complex novel...those who read by simultaneously working with the writer, fantasizing alongside him, capable of enjoying the subtleties and secrets of a text as rich and profound as the text of this novel, will never forget it.” —Mario Vargas Llosa
The Antiquarian
Author: The Antiquarian
Author: Alfred BalmPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665536209
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
As the son of a crofter family young Berend Bouters natural talent finds him in the prestigious Art Academy of Amsterdam. It is early 1900. Everything points to a successful career as an artist, he works along Mondrian, becomes part of the Barbizon movement, until life throws him a curve ball. During the First World War, Holland remains neutral, Berend becomes the owner of a barge and during heart-stopping escapades, smuggles goods to occupied Belgium for which he is richly rewarded. When the war is over, authorities confiscate all his belongings. To rebuild his fortune, he ingeniously schemes to adopt a new identity though Switzerland, he becomes Baron Fernando Del Muntanyes, the famous Antiquarian. But when he becomes involved in the greatest art heist of the century, the theft of a 15th century panel of The Adoration of the Lamb from the St.Bavo cathedral in Ghent, he is relentlessly pursued by the police. Ultimately with the Sicilian mafia and the Belgian police on his tail he spectacularly escapes on board of the Hindenburg Zeppelin to America. It seems to give him a new start, will it?
Old places revisited; or, The antiquarian enthusiast
Author: Robert BigsbyThe Antiquarian and Architectural Year-Book. for 1844
Author: [Anonymus AC10454245]Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Revolution and the Antiquarian Book
Author: Kristian JensenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107000513
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Examines the late eighteenth-century preoccupation with the acquisition of old books, and the new historical discipline created by traders.
The Antiquarian Repertory: a Miscellany, Intended to Preserve and Illustrate Several Valuable Remains of Old Times
Author: The Family Memoirs of the Rev. William Stukeley, M.D., and the Antiquarian and Other Correspondence of William Stukeley, Roger & Samuel Gale, etc.
Author: William StukeleyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385416078
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Catalogue of the ... antiquarian and historical library of ... sir Samuel Rush Meyrick ... which will be sold by auction
Author: The Antiquarian Itinerary, Comprising Specimens of Architecture, Monastic, Castellated, and Domestic
Author: James StorerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description