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The Bat Tattoo
de Russell Hoban
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0747560226
- ISBN 13
- 9780747560227
- Librería
-
Palgrave, Ontario, Canada
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
Bloomsbury, 2002. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Place ribbon intact.Full run of numbers. Slight edge wear otherwise very good.
Sinopsis
Russell Hoban's delicious new novel combines much about art- traditional and conceptual- with new angles on Christ, crash-test dummies, antiques, pornography and a charming tale of romance.Recently widowed and increasingly lonely, Roswell Clark's life had arrived at the point when he felt he needed a tattoo. His ideal image was that of a bat featured on an 18th century bowl in the Victoria and Albert Museum, but strangely, on a visit to the museum, he encountered a woman called Sarah Varley, who was clearly compelled by the same bat. What did it mean? Sarah dealt in antiques and Roswell soon ran into her stalls in Chelsea and Covent Garden. His calling, which grew out of an obsession with crash-test dummies was a bit harder to explain. It led from the invention of a popular children's toy to lucrative commissions from a Parisian sybarite for wooden working models with very adult moving parts. Both Roswell and Sarah had lost their spouses and were still grieving in very different ways. Then Christ started putting a hand in- literally- when a fragment of an ancient crucifix fetched up in one of Sarah's antique lots. Between some compulsion conveyed by this hand and Sarah's natural urge to make improvements in people, Roswell's work took a surprising new turn...
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Detalles
- Librería
- Hockley Books
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 007292
- Título
- The Bat Tattoo
- Autor
- Russell Hoban
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0747560226
- ISBN 13
- 9780747560227
- Editorial
- Bloomsbury
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 2002
- Palabras clave
- Fiction.Antiques
Términos de venta
Hockley Books
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Sobre el vendedor
Hockley Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2010
Palgrave, Ontario
Sobre Hockley Books
Hockley Books specializes in Canadian History with a focus on local histories. In addition there is a good selection of biography and fiction especially literary fiction. Mysteries, travel etc add to the flavour.
