Polyglots |
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| Author:
| Gerhardie, William |
| ISBN: | 978-1-85375-445-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2001 |
| Publisher: | Prion
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $13.99 |
Book Description:
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The Polyglots is the story of an eccentric Belgian family living in the Far East in the uncertain years after World War I and the Russian Revolution. The tale is recounted by their dryly conceited young English relative, Captain Georges Hamlet Alexander Diabologh, who comes to stay with them during a military mission. Teeming with bizarre characters--depressives, obsessives, paranoiacs, hypochondriacs, and sex maniacs--Gerhardie paints a brilliantly absurd world where...
More Description The Polyglots is the story of an eccentric Belgian family living in the Far East in the uncertain years after World War I and the Russian Revolution. The tale is recounted by their dryly conceited young English relative, Captain Georges Hamlet Alexander Diabologh, who comes to stay with them during a military mission. Teeming with bizarre characters--depressives, obsessives, paranoiacs, hypochondriacs, and sex maniacs--Gerhardie paints a brilliantly absurd world where the comic and the tragic are profoundly and irrevocably entwined.