- Male friendship, Fiction, College students, Fathers and sons
"Princeton. Good Friday, 1999. On the eve of graduation, two students are a hairsbreadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a Renaissance text that has baffled scholars for centuries.
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Classical in form, grave, plot-driven and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason, Eiko Kakinuma
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 445
- Publisher
- Albatros, Tranzitkniga, Le Grand livre du mois
- Editions
- 30
- Language
- Japanese, Italian, Chinese, French
- ISBN
- 9787020059188
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