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The
2003 Award
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The Grand Complication by Allen Kurzweil
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Publisher of Nominated Edition: Hyperion Publications ISBN 0786866039 |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| The Grand Complication is narrated by Alexander Short, a stylish young reference librarian of arcane interests. The account begins with Alexander's job in jeopardy and his marriage destined for the 'Discard Shelf'. Enter the improbably named Henry James Jesson III, a bibliophile who hires the librarian for some after-hours research. The task: to render whole an incomplete cabinet of wonders chronicling the life of a mysterious eighteenth-century inventor. As the investigation heats up, Alexander realises there are many more secrets lurking in Jesson's cloistered world than those found inside his elegant Manhattan town house. With a notebook tethered to his jacket, Alexander plunges headlong into the search, only to discover that the void in the cabinet is rivalled by emptiness in his heart. It is a novel of desperation and delight, of intrigue and theft. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Allen Kurzweil, author of A Case of Curiosities, has won various awards for his fiction, including fellowships from the Centre for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is currently a Fellow at Brown University's John Nicholas Brown Centre. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, USA with his family. |
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