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Absinth
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Series: French Literature
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ISBN10: 162897155X
ISBN13: 9781628971552
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr
Published: Nov 23 2016
Pages: 165
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781628971552
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr
Published: Nov 23 2016
Pages: 165
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
In Absinth, you'll meet three main characters trying to figure out their life on the backdrop of the upcoming Apocalypse: Iris, a fortune-teller who cannot see not the future but weirdly anachronistic versions of the past; Sid Saperstein, a shameless huckster chosen to publish a sacred manuscript whose message will shake heaven and earth alike; Hermes, the Greek messenger god, dispatched by Zeus to sound out his fellow deities, still smarting from the licking they took two thousand years ago, on how best to take advantage of the coming changes, whatever they may be. And also God Himself, whose enigmatic voice addresses us throughout the novel in the contemporary koans of advertising lingo.
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