A Case of Curiosities by Allen Kurzweil ARC Advance Reading Copy Proof Book

A Case of Curiosities by Allen Kurzweil ARC Advance Reading Copy Proof BookTitle: A Case of CuriositiesAuthor: Allen KurzweilISBN-13: ‎ 978-0151157938Year: 1992Publisher: Harcourt BraceFormat: PaperbackVintage: YesCollectible: ARC First Edition, 1st Printing Condition: ARC. First Edition / 1st Printing. In very good shape with light wear to cover. No markings. "Dash" remainder mark on bottom edge. SHIPS IN A BOX! Packaged with care.Genre: Literary Historical FictionSummary:In France, on the eve of the Revolution, a young man named Claude Page sets out to become the most ingenious and daring inventor of his time. In the course of a career filled with violence and passion, Claude learns the arts of enameling and watchmaking from an irascible, defrocked abbé, apprentices himself to a pornographic bookseller, and applies his erotic erudition to the seduction of the wife of an impotent wigmaker. But it is Claude's greatest device-a talking mecha