Theory of Clouds - Couverture souple

Audeguy, Stephane

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0156034816 ISBN 13 : 9780156034814

Editeur : Mariner Books, 2008

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

PRAISE FOR THE THEORY OF CLOUDS "This is an extraordinary bit of fiction, incorporating layer upon layer of history mixed with that Proustian pathos. This is Swann in love--with clouds, with mystery, with the secrets hidden in the physical world and psychological world. An exquisite, eccentric read."--The Baltimore Sun "Conceptual, dreamy, smart, and funny."--Slate

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0156034816
• ISBN 13: 9780156034814
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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