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 mechanical head-that both crowns his career and leads to an execution as tragic as that of Marie Antoinette, and far more bizarre.Hailed by critics for the shimmering brilliance of its inventions and its uncanny fidelity to the textures of the past, A Case of Curiosities places Allen Kurzweil securely in the ranks of the finest literary artists of our time.