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Mr. Palomar
Paperback
Series: Helen and Kurt Wolff Books
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $14.95
ISBN13: 9780156627801
Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
Published: Sep 22 1986
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
Beautifully nimble, solitary feats of imagination. --Seamus Heaney
Beguiling. --Time
A superbly crafted novel about one man's quest for order and reason in a chaotic and unreasonable world
Mr. Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. He is seeking knowledge; 'it is only after you have come to know the surface of things that you can venture to seek what is underneath'. Whether contemplating a fine cheese, a hungry gecko, a woman sunbathing topless or a flight of migrant starlings, Mr. Palomar's observations render the world afresh.
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