History Of The World In 10-1/2 Chapters by Barnes, Julian, Used Good Conditio...
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History Of The World In 10-1/2 Chapters by Barnes, Julian, Used Good Conditio.... History Of The World In 10-1/2 Chapters by Barnes, Julian, ISBN 0394221796, ISBN-13 9780394221793, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US It's a hilariously revisionist account of Noah's ark, narrated by a passenger who doesn't appear in Genesis. It's a sneak preview of heaven. It encompasses the stories of a cruise ship hijacked by terrorists and of woodworms tried for blasphemy in sixteenth-century France. It explores the relationship of fact to fabulation and the antagonism between history and love. In short, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters is a grandly ambitious and inventive work of fiction, in the traditions of Joyce and Calvino, from the author of the widely acclaimed Flaubert's Parrot .
