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Palimpsest : A Novel
by Valente, Catherynne
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0553385763
- ISBN 13
- 9780553385762
- Seller
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Reno, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
Random House Publishing Group. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Synopsis
In the Cities of Coin and Spice and In the Night Garden introduced readers to the unique and intoxicating imagination of Catherynne M. Valente. Now she weaves a lyrically erotic spell of a place where the grotesque and the beautiful reside and the passport to our most secret fantasies begins with a stranger's kiss....Between life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of the world is the city of Palimpsest. To get there is a miracle, a mystery, a gift, and a curse--a voyage permitted only to those who've always believed there's another world than the one that meets the eye. Those fated to make the passage are marked forever by a map of that wondrous city tattooed on their flesh after a single orgasmic night. To this kingdom of ghost trains, lion-priests, living kanji, and cream-filled canals come four travelers: Oleg, a New York locksmith; the beekeeper November; Ludovico, a binder of rare books; and a young Japanese woman named Sei. They've each lost something important--a wife, a lover, a sister, a direction in life--and what they will find in Palimpsest is more than they could ever imagine.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Better World Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- GRP75959552
- Title
- Palimpsest : A Novel
- Author
- Valente, Catherynne
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0553385763
- ISBN 13
- 9780553385762
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2009-02-24
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