Isbn: 9781590514153 - the vices: a novel (7 Ergebnisse)

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Soft cover. Zustand: As New. 1st printing. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in AS NEW condition. "Oliver Vice, forty-one, prominent philosopher, scholar, and art collector, is missing and presumed dead, over the side of Queen Mary 2. Troubled by his friend's possible suicide, the unnamed narrator of Lawrence Douglas's new novel launches an all-consuming investigation into Vice's life story. Fascination turns to obsession as he peels back the layers of the Vice family's rich and bizarre history. At the heart of the family are Francizka, Oliver's handsome, overbearing, vaguely anti-Semitic Hungarian mother; and his fraternal twin brother, Bartholomew, a gigantic and troubled young man with a morbid interest in Europe's great tyrants. As the narrator finds himself drawn into a battle over the family's money and art, he comes to sense that someone--or perhaps the entire family--is hiding an unsavory past." [flap copy] "Douglas is an American. But it's British names Iris Murdoch, Malcolm Bradbury, Michael Frayn that come to mind as fellow purveyors of his brand of brainy comedy."--Seattle Times. "Crisply told and vigorously compelling, Douglas's bright sense of humor camouflages but does not ultimately conceal his haunting story's menacing undertow."--Brad Leithauser. "Playful and profound . . . As dazzlingly constructed as it is limpidly told, THE VICES is a duplicitous delight that feels at home in this age of YouTube, e-mail, and the myriad other ways we consume and connect in this world . . . Lawrence Douglas gives conclusive evidence that he's the real thing."--Ed Park, Bookforum. "At its core a mystery, THE VICES is a witty, provocative, and devilishly entertaining book. Sometimes philosophical, sometimes wildly comic, Lawrence Douglas's latest novel plays yearning against satisfaction, prestige against authenticity, and, ultimately, the desire to be someone else against the difficulty of inhabiting self."--Sabina Murray. Pristine paperback w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, French flaps & a square, tight binding w/no creases in spine & no jacket as issued. Quite presentable.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 352 pages. 8.25x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.