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Shining at the Bottom of the Sea
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Shining at the Bottom of the Sea Paperback - 2008

by Marche, Stephen

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'May be the most exciting mash-upof literary genres since David Mitchell'sCloud Atlas.'(The New York Times Book Review)

Shining at the Bottom of the Sea is a vibrantevocation of a fictional country, Sanjania fromthe birth pangs of its first settlers and their hardyvernacular, to its revolutionary years, and all the wayto the present diaspora all told through StephenMarche's innovative and accomplished writing style.

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  • Title Shining at the Bottom of the Sea
  • Author Marche, Stephen
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 254
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Riverhead Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2008-08-05
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1594483159.G
  • ISBN 9781594483158 / 1594483159
  • Weight 0.47 lbs (0.21 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.16 x 0.68 in (20.32 x 13.11 x 1.73 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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'Rarely is a novel as refreshingly different as Shiningat the Bottom of the SeaIn a triumph ofpostmodernism, Marche has created a novel thatcan and will be read an incalculable numberof ways.'
Chicago Tribune

'Unlike...any other book. [A] real tour de force,ingenious and hilarious, a tour of the island of onewriter's fertile mind.'
San Francisco Chronicle

'Untrammeled, unfettered, unprecedented,unselfconscious, and friggin' unbelievable, this bookbusts the novel open.'
Daniel Handler, author of Adverbs

'Reads like one of Borges's three page ficciones, spunout to book length.'
The New York Times Book Review