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"A wonderfully diverting and stimulating entertainment. Cunningly structured and as satisfying as an intricate piece of clockwork, it plays with narrative, revels in ideas and succeeds in being both fey and sharp, detached and compassionate. At a time when fiction gives all to the tired virtual realities of sex and violence, internets, Agas and middle-class Angst, it is a brilliant reminder of the power of the imagination to surprise, delight and open windows."
David Coward in The Times Literary Supplement
"Crumey does produce excellent post-modernist novels, each as concentric and cunning as the others. This is a triptych starting with D'Alembert penning his imagined memoirs. The literary equivalent of an Escher, the story has no identifiable end or beginning. Clever, entertaining, engaging"
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"Complex, intriguing...the exhilaration [Crumey] brings to narrative is rare." --John Perry, San Francisco Chronicle
"The legacies of D'Alembert, Ferguson and Goldmann, a principle, a vision and a story, combine to create a portrait of the 18th century European mind stretched thin between the heart and the stars." --Los Angeles Times
"Inventive, playful...[D'Alembert's Principle is] a confection that is at once elegant, provocative and thoroughly entertaining." --Merle Rubin, The Wall Street Journal
"Proceeding from poignancy and awe to hilarity, the three parts constitute an intellectual treat." --Booklist
About the Author
Andrew Crumey was born in Glasgow in 1961. He read theoretical physics and mathematics at St Andrews University and Imperial College in London, before doing post-doctoral research. His first novel Music, in a Foreign Language (1994) was awarded The Saltire Best First Book Prize. His second novel Pfitz (1995) was one of the books of the year for The Observer and The New York Times. He published D'Alembert's Principle to great acclaim in 1996.
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- PublisherDedalus Limited
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1873982321
- ISBN 13 9781873982327
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages204
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