9780151010400

The Double

Jose Saramago; Margaret Jull Costa

ISBN 10: 0151010404 / 0-15-101040-4
ISBN 13: 9780151010400
Publisher: Harcourt
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Hardcover
Editorial Reviews:
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"THE DOUBLE hums with imaginative energy...[C]learly the work of a great writer...."

Kirkus, 09/01/2004

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"The wildly ramifying plot has an improvised air but proves to be tightly knit, constructed toward a stark dénouement. The tight construction floats, however, on a bubbling, uninhibited authorial voice of cheerful volatility....Saramago has the gift of gab. Our impression is of a writer, like Faulkner, so confident of his resources and ultimate destination that he can bring any improbability to life by hurling words at it."

John Updike, New Yorker, 09/17/2004

 
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The Double (ISBN: 0151010404 / 0-15-101040-4)
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Book Description: Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Harcourt, 2004. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. 000-393: Hardcover with Dustjacket. 324 pages. No Defects. A New Unread Book. A beautiful, square, tight copy with clean, unmarked pages. Tight hinges indicate book has never been opened. Perfect Gift Quality. Spell-binding Novel of a High School History Teacher, Tertuliano Maximo Afonse, who discovers there is a bit-part actor who is his Double -- a virtual DNA Double. They share the same birth date and year, and Tertuliano is obsessed as to what will happen to one when the other dies. We follow Tertuliano in his search for discovery of this Double and his attempts to make sense of it. Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. A C E G I K J H F D B Stated First U.S. Edition, First Printing 2004. Published by Harcourt Books. Orlando, Florida. Bookseller Inventory # ABE-7658039753

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Book Description: Harcourt, Inc., Orlando, 2004. Softcover. Book Condition: New. Uncorrected Proof. 324 pages. Softcover. Brand new, uncorrected proof copy. FICTION. Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is a history teacher in a secondary school. He is divorced, involved in a rather one-sided relationship with a bank clerk, and he is depressed. To lift his depression, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film and is unimpressed. During the night, noises in his apartment wake him. He goes into the living room to find that the VCR is replaying the video, and as he watches in astonishment he sees a man who looks exactly like him - or, more specifically, exactly like the man he was five years before, mustachioed and fuller in the face. He sleeps badly. Against his own better judgment, Tertuliano decides to pursue his double. As he establishes the man's identity, what begins as a whimsical story becomes a dark meditation on identity and, perhaps, on the crass assumption behind cloning-that we are merely our outward appearance rather than the sum of our experiences. (Key Words: Fiction, mystery, Cloning, Jose Saramago, Portuguese literature, Portugal, Nobel Prize Winners). book. Bookseller Inventory # 15017X1

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Book Description: Harcourt, 2004. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 5.75x8.5. A history teacher in a secondary school, divorced and in an unsatisfying relationship, watches a video that a friend recommends. He is not impressed, but as he sleeps, he is awakened by strange noises. He finds the VCR is replaying the video, and he sees himself - five years younger - in the video. He sets out to find his double. Translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. 324 pages. List price $25.00. Bookseller Inventory # 11768

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