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- Buy It NowThe House of Paper Hardcover-First US Edition Carlos Maria Dominguez-A14
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Name
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Special Attributes
- EX-LIBRARY
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780151011476
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0151011478
ISBN-13
9780151011476
eBay Product ID (ePID)
45092850
Product Key Features
Book Title
House of Paper
Number of Pages
112 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Mystery & Detective / General
Publication Year
2005
Illustrator
SiS, Peter, Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
7.1 Oz
Item Length
7.2 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-002401
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Adult/High School-Some bibliophiles become so ensnared in their passion that books would seem to become the very rooms and rooftops of their lives. This seems literally to be the case for the elusive Carlos Brauer, a South American who mailed a cement-caked book to Cantabrigian professor Bluma Lennon, only to have it arrive after shed died in a pedestrian accident while reading from a volume of Emily Dickinson. The actual book in which this part-parable, part-odyssey unfolds is itself a model of what the characters agree a fine book should be: well-spaced and clearly printed lines, well-made paper, clever but infrequent illustrations, and a narrative that begs to be treated as a living, flesh-and-blood interlocutor. Its very brevity allows bright and biblioholic teen readers the opportunity to see a literary joke through-which is not to say a slight or insubstantial bit of literary twaddle-from setup to close. Dominguez references a variety of authors with whom college-prep students will be familiar and shows off a sprightly interpretation of South American magical realism. This would make an excellent suggestion for formal summer reading.-Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley Public Library, CA Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved., Uruguayan novelist and critic Dominguez's book-obsessed homage to Argentinian great Borges is a sweet miss. A devastatingly beautiful Conrad scholar, Bluma Lennon is killed by a car while crossing a street near Cambridge University while holding a copy of Emily Dickinson's poems. Several weeks later, the narrator, one of Bluma's several lovers, receives a copy of Joseph Conrad's The Shadow-Line in the mail. There's no letter, but the postmark is Uruguay; the book is inscribed by Bluma to "Carlos" and it is encrusted with portland cement. The unnamed narrator sets out for Montevideo to discover its secret. The rest of the plot, in which Borges-as-author figures, is predictably book-centered, with plenty of travel and metaphysical musing. It is amiable and sincere in its desire to add its voice to the master's by revisiting some of his settings (including Buenos Aires) and subjects (Quixote, collecting, love, time and death). But it falls short of Borges's own takes and is thus hard to read as more than a love letter. With 11 two-color illustrations by Peter Sis, the book is fun and sad in the right spots, but one never gets a fiendish enough sense of Dom nguez's own obsessions or his desire to plot them. (Nov.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
Dewey Decimal
863/.64
Synopsis
Immersed in a volume of poetry, Bluma Lennon is hit by a car while crossing the street. Her successor in Cambridge's English department travels to Buenos Aires to track down the source of a novel encrusted in cement that was sent to the late Bluma in this tale--part mystery, part social comedy, and part examination of bibliomania., Bluma Lennon, distinguished professor of Latin American literature at Cambridge, is hit by a car while crossing the street, immersed in a volume of Emily Dickinson's poems. Several months after her untimely demise, a package arrives for her from Argentina-a copy of a Conrad novel, encrusted in cement and inscribed with a mysterious dedication. Bluma's successor in the department (and a former lover) travels to Buenos Aires to track down the sender, one Carlos Brauer, who turns out to have disappeared. The last thing known is that he moved to a remote stretch of the Uruguayan coastline and built himself a house out of his enormous and valuable library. How he got there, and why, is the subject of this seductive novel-part mystery, part social comedy, and part examination of all the many forms of bibliomania. Charmingly illustrated by Peter Sís, The House of Paper is a tribute to the strange and passionate relationship between people and their books., Bluma Lennon, distinguished professor of Latin American literature at Cambridge, is hit by a car while crossing the street, immersed in a volume of Emily Dickinson's poems. Several months after her untimely demise, a package arrives for her from Argentina-a copy of a Conrad novel, encrusted in cement and inscribed with a mysterious dedication. Bluma's successor in the department (and a former lover) travels to Buenos Aires to track down the sender, one Carlos Brauer, who turns out to have disappeared. The last thing known is that he moved to a remote stretch of the Uruguayan coastline and built himself a house out of his enormous and valuable library. How he got there, and why, is the subject of this seductive novel-part mystery, part social comedy, and part examination of all the many forms of bibliomania. Charmingly illustrated by Peter SIs, The House of Paper is a tribute to the strange and passionate relationship between people and their books.
LC Classification Number
PQ7798.14.O385C3713
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