Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon

Jim Paul

ISBN 10: 0156005565 / ISBN 13: 9780156005562

Published by Harvest Books / Harcourt Brace & Co., 1997

About this Item

First Harvest edition 1997, 1st printing. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in FINE / As New condition. "It all started when Jim Paul found out he couldn't bring a grapefruit-sized piece of two-billion-year-old quartzite onto the plane because, the attendant said, it could be used as a weapon. That's ridiculous, he thought, holding the rock in his hand. And then he realized that, at one time, such a rock had been a weapon, and a catapult had launched it. So was born the idea to build a medieval catapult, exact in every detail. And so was launched the book that has now become a much beloved classic." [publisher copy] "A roller-coaster ride through the intellect and imagination of a poet in the thrall of a grand obsession. So funny that I could not put it down."--The Los Angeles Times. "I have often wanted to lay siege to the odd fortress of encampment. Jim Paul at last has shown me how such a thing is within the realm of my abilities."--Tom Hanks. "Delightfully whimsical . . . Sneakily profound."--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt. Pristine paperback w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon
• Publisher: Harvest Books / Harcourt Brace & Co.
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0156005565
• ISBN 13: 9780156005562
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

An enormously entertaining (Smithsonian), clever, subtle, and adroit account (Wall Street Journal) of how the author and his friend constructed a medieval siege engine in a San Francisco backyard. So funny that I could not put it down (Los Angeles Times).

About the Author

Jim Paul, author of Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon, What's Called Love, and Medieval in L.A., is a poet and translator. A recipient of a Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship, he lives in San Francisco.