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The Double

by Saramago, Jose

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ISBN 10
0156032589
ISBN 13
9780156032582
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NY: Harcourt, Inc.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 2005. First Edition Thus. Later Printing. Soft Cover. 0156032589 . Publisher's glossy wraps.. VERY GOOD+.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 324 pp .

Synopsis

Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a history teacher in a secondary school. He is divorced, involved in a rather one-sided relationship with a bank clerk, and he is depressed. To lift his depression, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film and is unimpressed. During the night, noises in his apartment wake him. He goes into the living room to find that the VCR is replaying the video, and as he watches in astonishment he sees a man who looks exactly like him-or, more specifically, exactly like the man he was five years before, mustachioed and fuller in the face. He sleeps badly. Against his own better judgment, Tertuliano decides to pursue his double. As he establishes the man's identity, what begins as a whimsical story becomes a dark meditation on identity and, perhaps, on the crass assumption behind cloning-that we are merely our outward appearance rather than the sum of our experiences.

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Bookseller
Round Table Books, LLC US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
16887
Title
The Double
Author
Saramago, Jose
Format/Binding
Soft Cover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
Edition
First Edition Thus. Later Printing
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0156032589
ISBN 13
9780156032582
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc.
Place of Publication
NY
Date Published
2005
Keywords
0156032589, Literature;, Novels;, Thriller;

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