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Item number:370279163341
Item location:Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Author: Andrew CrumeyFormat: Hardback
Publisher: St Martins PrEdition: 1
1723687: 0312268033ISBN-13: 9780312268039
Category: Action/AdventurePublication Year: 2001
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Language: EnglishCondition: New
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On a quest for a copy of a legendary 18th-century French text called ROSIER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA, a book collector known only as Mr. Mee gets introduced to the Internet, where he discovers that life includes more than just rare books. Mr. Mee's story is juxtaposed with a few others: a French literature professor who lusts after a student, and two copyists who are working on the encyclopedia back in the 18th century. And bits of the encyclopedia itself are also included--excerpts that are uncannily relevant to life 200 years after they were written. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.

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Length:344 pages
Height:8.5 in.
Width:5.8 in.
Thickness:1.2 in.
Weight:24.0 oz.

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In this inventive and affecting novel, an octogenarian book collector named Mr. Mee discovers the Internet with life-changing results.

Told in turns from the point of view of the endearing, utterly guileless Mr. Mee, two eighteenth-century French philosophers, and a middle-aged university professor, Andrew Crumey's book concerns the creation and mysterious disappearance of Rosier's Encyclopedia, a potentially explosive text written more than 200 years ago that purportedly disproves the existence of the universe. When Mr. Mee comes across a reference to the Xanthics, an obsolete sect that maintained unorthodox beliefs about fire, his hunt for more information compels him to try locating a copy of the singular encyclopedia. Technologically ignorant, Mr. Mee is at last persuaded by his addled housekeeper to conduct a modern search for the book on the Internet. But instead of finding additional clues about Rosier's Encyclopedia, Mr. Mee stumbles upon an image of a naked woman reading from an intriguing text....

Alternating among the three stories, Andrew Crumey takes us closer to the truth about Rosier's Encyclopedia and the secrets it contains. At times funny, often thought-provoking, and utterly engaging, Mr. Mee is Crumey's most rewarding novel to date.

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"Fans of Tom Stoppard and Michael Frayn will relish this novel's puzzles and paradoxes, its unfolding and ingenious designs. Yet it is never hard going, always good-humored, jaunty and sometimes enjoyably silly. Crumey is a confident narrator, and his book has a heart as well as a brain. It is not only an intellectual treat but a moving meditation on aspiration and desire."
New York Times Book Review - Hilary Mantel (04/01/2001)


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Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0312268033
Title : Mr. Mee
Authors : Andrew Crumey
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher : Picador USA
Publication Date : 2001-03
Pages : 344
List Price (MSRP) : 25.00
Height : 1.0900 inches
Width : 5.8000 inches
Length : 8.5200 inches
Weight : 1.0800 pounds
Keywords : British, Contemporary, General, English (All), Antiques & Collectibles, Literature
Condition : New

Description: Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket.

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