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After acquiring the skills of an expert enamelist and watchmaker as a child in preindustrial Europe, Claude Page flees to Paris and struggles with the help of friends to invent his greatest device
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itics for its brilliance, A CASE OF CURIOSITIES begins In France, on the eve of the Revolution, when young man named Claude Page sets out to become the most ingenious and daring inventor of his time. In the courst of his career filled with violence and passion, Claude learns and creates many things. But his greatest device, a talking mechanical head, leads to an execution as tragic as that of Marie Antoinette, and far more bizarre.
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Allen Kurzweil was named a "Best Young American Novelist" by Granta for A Case of Curiosities, his first novel. He has been the recipient of Guggenheim and Fullbright Fellowships, and a 1999 Fellow of the New York Public Library for Scholars and Writers. His fiction has been honored in the United States, France, Italy, and Ireland. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
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- PublisherHarcourt
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0151157936
- ISBN 13 9780151157938
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages358
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