THE THEORY OF CLOUDS
by Stephane Audeguy
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0151014280
- ISBN 13
- 9780151014286
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Synopsis
**DEBUT FICTION** A kira Kumo, miraculous survivor of Hiroshima, reinvented himself as someone twenty years younger. Now an eccentric couturier and collector of all literature having to do with clouds and meteorology, he hires Virginie, a young librarian, to catalog his library. While she works, he tells her stories of those who have devoted their lives to clouds: the Quaker Luke Howard, contemporary of Napoleon and Goethe, who first classified clouds; the painter Carmichael (based on John Constable), who spent a year painting clouds; and the mysterious Abercrombie, a photographer who cataloged clouds around the world. Virginie’s trip to London in search of the suppressed Abercrombie protocol becomes a quest no less wondrous and strange than Kumo’s own. Sensual, hypnotic, and filled with stories both true and fanciful, The Theory of Clouds is a masterful first novel.
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- World of Books Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- GOR003984790
- Title
- THE THEORY OF CLOUDS
- Author
- Stephane Audeguy
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0151014280
- ISBN 13
- 9780151014286
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- September 17, 2007
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