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Island of the mad : a novel / Laurie Sheck.
"This stunning lyrical mix of fact and fiction loosens the boundaries between past and present as it offers an intimate look into the peculiar life of a man named Ambrose A. and those he comes to know as his story unfolds. Orphaned and hunchbacked since childhood, Ambrose has lived a reclusive life until one day he’s suddenly confronted with an odd request: that he travel to Venice in search of a lost notebook he can know nothing about. Though aware of the seeming absurdity of the task, he embarks on his mission. Once there, he is visited by the ethereal Frieda, a young woman executed as a murderess a century before who now guides him through the city and into the devastating Venetian Plague of 1557."--Provided by the publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781619028357 (hardcover) :
- Physical Description: 437 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Counterpoint, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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