The Egyptologist [Idioma Inglés]: A Novel - Softcover

Phillips, Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812972597 ISBN 13: 9780812972597

Verlag: Random House Publishing Group, 2005

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"A wildly pleasurable, dazzling reading experience, big in heart and execution: crazed, ecstatic, and entertaining in the deepest sense of the word. Arthur Phillips is a terrifically talented writer, and these pages overflow with wit, mad humor, and, finally, a deep undercurrent of pathos."
-GEORGE SAUNDERS, author of Pastoralia and Civil War Land in Bad Decline

"What a splendid, funny, bewitching book . . . Beneath Arthur Phillips's singular wit and peerless comic timing, lies a spot-on parable of twentieth-century self-delusion and the painfully fruitless quest for immortality."
-GARY SHTEYNGART, author of The Russian Debutante's Handbook

"The dueling voices of a nostalgic detective and the monomaniacal archaeologist he pursues around the world are only part of the treasure contained in The Egyptologist. Crafted with nuanced erudition and literary flair, Phillips uncovers the hieroglyphs (not hieroglyphics-but you'll learn that) and building blocks beneath how we construct, interpret, and trust our storytellers. Highly textured, quirky, serpentine, surprising."
-MATTHEW PEARL, author of The Dante Club

Reseña del editor:

Obsessed Oxford-educated Egyptologist Ralph Trilipush risks his professional reputation and his fiancée's fortune on a search for the tomb of an apocryphal pharaoh, while an Australian detective embarks on a global search for a murderer, two quests that culminate in an explosive confrontation. By the author of Prague. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.

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• Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0812972597
• ISBN 13: 9780812972597
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416