New York: Harcourt. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Fine book in like jacket.. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Yambo, a stylish rare-book dealer in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory. In an effort to retrieve his past, he searches through boxes of old newspapers, photo albums, adolescent diaries and relives the story of his generation: Mussolini, Catholic education and guilt, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon, Fred Astaire. His memories run wild and life races before him in a series of images as he struggles to capture one - that of his first love. ; 8.8 X 6.3 X 1.8 inches; 480 pages .

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Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory-he can remember the plot of every book he has ever read, every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, and remembers nothing about his parents or his childhood. In an effort to retrieve his past, he withdraws to the family home somewhere in the hills between Milan and Turin.There, in the sprawling attic, he searches through boxes of old newspapers, comics, records, photo albums, and adolescent diaries. And so Yambo relives the story of his generation: Mussolini, Catholic education and guilt, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon, Fred Astaire. His memories run wild, and the life racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic novel. Yambo struggles through the frames to capture one simple, innocent image: that of his first love. A fascinating, abundant new novel-wide-ranging, nostalgic, funny, full of heart-from the incomparable Eco.

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Bookseller: Blackbird Bookshop (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 7676
Title: THE MYSTERIOUS FLAME OF QUEEN LOANA
Author: Eco, Umberto
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket; Fine book in like jacket.
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0151011400
ISBN 13: 9780151011407
Publisher: Harcourt
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2005
Keywords: FICTION
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction; Non-Mystery / Collectible Fiction;

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