- Book collecting, Medievalists, Medieval Manuscripts, Fiction
An investment banker is sent by his firm to organize a collection of rare books for a mysterious client and realizes that there may be a medieval codex hidden among the volumes that parallels a computer game's addictive virtual reality world.
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Grave, classical in form, cool and intimate.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Lev Grossman
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 376
- Publisher
- RB Large Print, Arrow, Harvest Books
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780151010660
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