Theory of Clouds - Softcover

Audeguy, Stephane

 
9780156034814: Theory of Clouds

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Akira Kumo miraculously survived the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima. Now an eccentric couturier living in Paris, he has the world’s largest collection of literature on clouds and meteorology, which he hires Virginie Latour to catalog. As they work, he tells her the stories of those who have devoted their lives to clouds: the English Quaker who first classified clouds, the painter who became obsessed with capturing clouds on canvas, and the wealthy late-nineteenth-century amateur meteorologist Richard Abercrombie, a photographer who may have created the only definitive catalog of clouds—but only one copy exists, and it has never been seen. Kumo sends Virginie to London to track down the fabled Abercrombie Protocol, a quest both surprising and wondrous, where love, like clouds, forms and transforms lives.

Sensual, hypnotic, deeply erotic, The Theory of Clouds is a novel of clouds—both historical and imaginative—and how they shape our passions, our storms, and our stories.

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STÉPHANE AUDEGUY lives in Paris, where he teaches the history of cinema and arts.


STÉPHANE AUDEGUY lives in Paris, where he teaches the history of cinema and arts.

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"An amorphous story, alternately static and turbulent, a subtle mixture of history and fiction, tragedy and comedy?. Sit back, stare up at this book: The weather's fascinating." -- Washington Post Book World

Akira Kumo miraculously survived Hiroshima's mushroom cloud. Now an eccentric couturier living in Paris, he he hires Virginie Latour to catalog his collection of literature on clouds and meteorology. As they work, he tells her the stories of those who have devoted their lives to clouds, including the late-nineteenth-century amateur meteorologist Richard Abercrombie, a photographer who may have created the only definitive catalog of clouds?but only one copy exists, and it has never been seen. Kumo dispatches Virginie to London to track down the fabled Abercrombie Protocol, a quest both surprising and wondrous, where love, like clouds, forms and transforms lives.

"[W]ise and oddly tender?Audeguy reminds me of the late, great W.G. Sebald." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune

"An all-encompassing and startlingly erotic meditation on all the shapes to be found in nature. Beautiful, sensuous, cerebral, this novel is the work of a major talent." -- Seattle Times
STÉPHANE AUDEGUY lives in Paris, where he teaches the history of cinema and arts.

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ISBN 10:  0151014280 ISBN 13:  9780151014286
Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007
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