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THE QUEST FOR CORVO
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| By: |
A. J. A. Symons, A. S. Byatt |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£17.99 |
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£13.13 |
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£4.86 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0940322617 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780940322615 |
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Last available stock.
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Currently 2 available |
| Publisher: |
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, INC |
| Pub. date: |
1 March, 2001 |
| Edition: |
Main |
| Pages: |
312 |
| Synopsis: |
One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel-"a masterpiece"-and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten creator. The Quest for Corvo is a hilarious and heartbreaking portrait of the strange Frederick Rolfe, self-appointed Baron Corvo, an artist, writer, and frustrated aspirant to the priesthood with a bottomless talent for self-destruction. But this singular work, subtitled "an experiment in biography," is also a remarkable self-portrait, a study of the obsession and sympathy that inspires the biographer's art. |
| Illustrations: |
1 port. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
NYRB Classics |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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