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Darconville's Cat by Alexander Theroux (1996, Paperback, Reprint) 
Darconville's Cat by Alexander Theroux (1996, Paperback, Reprint)

 
Darconville's Cat by Alexander Theroux (1996, Paperback, Reprint)

Author: Alexander Theroux
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
Publication Date: 1996-04-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0805043659
ISBN-13: 9780805043655
Product ID: EPID873277
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Publication Date:1996-04-01
Edition Description:Reprint

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Length:704 pages
Height:8.5 in
Width:5.5 in
Thickness:2.0 in
Weight:24.8 oz

Publisher's Note
Alaric Darconville is a young professor at a small Southern college. He falls in love with one of his students, is deserted, and the consequences are almost beyond the telling. But not quite. This novel is an astonishing wire-walking exhibition of wit. knowledge, and linguistic mastery. Its chapters embody a multiplicity of narrative forms, including a diary, a formal oration, an abecedarium, a sermon, a litany, a blank-verse play, poems, essays, parodies, and fables. It is an explosion of vocabulary, rich with comic invention and dark with infernal imagination.

Darconville's Cat is a novel about love and hate. Among other matters, it deals with the delicate tensions between Life and Art, the Ideal and the Real, God and Satan, and, above all, with the crises and conflicts between Man and Woman, the tragic implications of which reach all the way back to the Primal Fall.

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"...one of the legendary books of the past 20 years....The narrative itself is compelling, but what makes this book so astonishing is its style, or rather styles: Theroux writes some of the most beautifully brocaded sentences this side of rococo; his teachers would seem to be such masters of decorative prose as Sire Thomas Browne, Robert Burton, and Baron Corvo."
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