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Product Identifiers
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-100151011400
ISBN-139780151011407
eBay Product ID (ePID)43546414
Product Key Features
Book TitleMysterious Flame of Queen Loana
Number of Pages480 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPsychological, Literary
Publication Year2005
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorUmberto Eco
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight27.2 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2004-029105
ReviewsDeeply cerebral, yet remarkably accessible...Eco delights his fans with an intellectual's take on nostalgia.., PRAISE FOR BAUDOLINO "A richly variegated haul of medieval treasures . . . Compulsively readable."-THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW PRAISE FOR THE NAME OF THE ROSE "The kind of novel that changes our mind, replaces our reality with its own."-LOS ANGELES TIMES "Like the labyrinthine library at its heart, this brilliant novel has many cunning passages and secret chambers . . . Fascinating . . . Ingenious . . . Dazzling."-NEWSWEEK, Deeply cerebral, yet remarkably accessible...Eco delights his fans with an intellectual''s take on nostalgia.., A head-spinning tour through the corridors of history and popular culture, and one of this sly entertainer''s liveliest yet., PRAISE FOR THE MYSTERIOUS FLAME OF QUEEN LOANA "An insidiously witty and provocative story."-- Los Angeles Times "Brilliantly written and gorgeously illustrated . . . As we accompany Yambo on his trail of self-discovery, we see Umberto Eco, one of the great minds of our era, reveal a little of his heart."-- Chicago Sun-Times, A head-spinning tour through the corridors of history and popular culture, and one of this sly entertainer's liveliest yet.
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal853/.912
Table Of ContentPART ONE: THE INCIDENT 1. The Cruelest Month 3 2. The Murmur of Mulberry Leaves 28 3. Someone May Pluck Your Flower 45 4. Alone through City Streets I Go 64 PART TWO: PAPER MEMORY 5. Clarabelle's Treasure 81 6. Il Nuovissimo Melzi 90 7. Eight Days in an Attic 117 8. When the Radio 159 9. But Pippo Doesn't Know 178 10. The Alchemist's Tower 212 11. Up There at Capocabana 227 12. Blue Skies Are on the Way 257 13. The Pallid Little Maiden 272 14. The Hotel of the Three Roses 295 PART THREE: OI NO?TOI 15. You're Back at Last, Friend Mist! 301 16. The Wind Is Whistling 325 17. The Provident Young Man 379 18. Lovely Thou Art as the Sun 406 sources of citations and Illustrations 451
SynopsisYambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory-he can remember the plot of every book he has ever read, every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, and remembers nothing about his parents or his childhood. In an effort to retrieve his past, he withdraws to the family home somewhere in the hills between Milan and Turin.There, in the sprawling attic, he searches through boxes of old newspapers, comics, records, photo albums, and adolescent diaries. And so Yambo relives the story of his generation: Mussolini, Catholic education and guilt, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon, Fred Astaire. His memories run wild, and the life racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic novel. Yambo struggles through the frames to capture one simple, innocent image: that of his first love. A fascinating, abundant new novel-wide-ranging, nostalgic, funny, full of heart-from the incomparable Eco., To recall his memories, Yambo withdraws to the family home where he searches old newspapers, comics, records, photo albums, and diaries to relive the story of his generation: Mussolini, Catholic education and guilt, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon, and Fred Astaire.
LC Classification NumberPQ4865.C6M5713 2005
