Foucault’s Pendulum hardcover, black cloth to boards with silver lettering to title - 1989
by Umberto Eco
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
Three Milan editors, who have spent much time rewriting crackpot manuscripts on the occult, decide to have a little fun. Their plan encompasses the secrets of the solar system, Satanic initiation rites, and Brazilian voodoo. A terrific joke--until people begin to disappear.
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Details
- Title Foucault’s Pendulum
- Author Umberto Eco
- Binding Hardcover, black cloth to boards with silver lettering to title
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Near Fine
- Pages 642
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York
- Date 1989
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Dust Cover, Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0003
- ISBN 9780151327652 / 0151327653
- Weight 2.42 lbs (1.10 kg)
- Dimensions 9.5 x 6.1 x 1.81 in (24.13 x 15.49 x 4.60 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Italy
- Library of Congress subjects Occult fiction, Psychological fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 89032212
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
A superb cerebral entertainment about three editors who cook up a hoax-involving the Templar Knights, Stonehenge, the Cabala, and Brazilian voodoo, among other things-that suddenly becomes all too real. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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Citations
- Library Journal, 09/01/1989, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 09/08/1989, Page 0