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The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri: A Novel
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The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri: A Novel
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by David Bajo
Sales Rank: 226920
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List Price: $25.95
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on 10-28-2008
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Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Viking Adult June 19, 2008
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0670019291
ISBN-13: 978-0670019298
Product Dimensions:
9 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
From Publishers Weekly
Volumes by Borges, Cervantes, Sebald and others serve as clues and almost as characters in Bajo's intriguing debut, a love story wrapped in a bibliomaniacal whodunit with a hall-of-mirrors bow on top. The books belonged to Irma Arcuri, a bookbinder, writer and the lifelong object of preternatural math whiz Philip Masryk's desire. After Philip learns that Irma has supposedly killed herself and bequeathed her library to him, he quits his job to explore Irma's books and discover any messages that might be left in them for him. With the help of Lucia, a beautiful woman uncannily familiar to Philip, he discovers that Irma has not only rebound the books but also changed their texts; a new story is added to Borges's Ficciones and buried in Don Quixote are notes from Irma. As he follows Irma's long-cold trail from Philadelphia to Barcelona and Seville, Philip finds traces of Irma everywhere, but few clues that point to a resolution. Though Bajo's plotting can be elliptical and the denouement doesn't quite sing, the narrative's intelligence and passion transcend its metafictional ambiguities. (June)
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Product Review
"It might be easier to explain what’s lacking in David Bajo’s mind-expanding novel The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri. This is an amazing, beautiful story of Philip Mazryk’s quixotic search for the Siren of all Sirens. These characters live within a puzzle, that’s inside a maze, that’s inside a labyrinth all tied up in Mobius strips. It’s as if Stranger than Fiction were co-directed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Gottlob Frege. Smart, mystical, sexy, and lyrical: I’m convinced that The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri will not leave the reader, ever."
-George Singleton, author of Novel and The Half-Mammals of Dixie
“The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri is a dazzling combination of love and sex and, yes, mathematics, and David Bajo uses mirrors to make his magic. If you have ever opened a novel and found yourself ‘inside’ the story, you must read this book.”
—Keith Donohue, author of the bestselling The Stolen Child
“David Bajo’s first novel is a provocative and elegant meditation on love, literature, and mathematics.”
—Karl Iagnemma, author of On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction
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