A Vaudeville of Devils: 7 Moral Tales - Hardcover

Girardi, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385333978 ISBN 13: 9780385333979

Verlag: Delacorte Pr, 1999

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Book by Girardi Robert

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A treasury of short fiction by the author of Madeleine's Ghost explores the moral uncertainties of human life in seven stories in which human souls are won or lost based on the result of everyday decisions, including such works as "The Dinner Party" and "The Primordial Face."

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laimed author of Madeleine's Ghost and Vaporetto 13 comes a mesmerizing collection of seven novellas and stories that explore, through the lives of a variety of extraordinary and ordinary characters, our many moral quandaries.

Meet Hans Otto Graebner as he lingers in the beach resort of Ostend, on the North Sea. Soon this haggard SS officer will be dispatched to perform the menial but necessary task of locating and assassinating a degenerate Belgian painter.

Join "The Dinner Party," where a man stands adrift in a distinctly Borgesian universe, somewhere at the end of time. It could be the Apocalypse or some ghoulish carnival. He's attending a feast at an anonymous mansion while the fall of Babylon is acted out around him, and he struggles to hold on to the faint remnants of his conscience while the world goes up in flames.

Turn to a search for "The Primordial Face," in which two expatriates, one of them mute, go divin

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• Verlag: Delacorte Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0385333978
• ISBN 13: 9780385333979
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 421