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Case of Curiosities Author: Hailed by critics for its brilliance, A CASE OF CURIOSITIES begins In France, on the eve of the Revolution, when young man named Claude Page sets out to become the most ingenious and daring inventor of his time. In the courst of his career filled with violence and passion, Claude learns and creates many things. But his greatest device, a talking... more »
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Fiction: Claude Page learns the arts of enameling and watchmaking from a defrocked Abbe in pre-revolution France, later inventing a talking mechanical head which eventually leads to tragic events. Slight wear, 358 pages.
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Pretty horrible. I couldn't get past the first 30 pages. Self-indulgent writing that the writer believes is more interesting than it is. Don't care about the characters, don't care about the curiosities. Author tries to set up the book as if it's non-fiction, but is so overwrought in doing it that you don't believe it for a second -- you recognize it for what it is, a gimmick. Blech.
Quirky and interesting.
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