The Theory of Clouds - Couverture rigide

Audeguy, Stephane

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0151014280 ISBN 13 : 9780151014286

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007

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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Présentation de l'éditeur

**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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FRENCH PRAISE FOR THE THEORY OF CLOUDS

"A cyclonic fiction illuminated by flashes of genius." --Elle

"An impressive first novel . . . Belongs up there with the works of Jonathan Coe, Julian Barnes or Kazuo Ishiguro." --Les Inrockuptibles

"A Proustian first novel, climatic, ambitious, and splendid." --Politis

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0151014280
• ISBN 13: 9780151014286
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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