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The museum at Purgatory / Nick Bantock.
Van Pelt Library PR6052.A54 M87 1999 1 v. + six stamps
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bantock, Nick.
- Series:
- Byzantium book
- A Byzantium book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Purgatory--Fiction.
- Purgatory.
- Future life--Fiction.
- Future life.
- Museum curators--Fiction.
- Museum curators.
- Museums--Fiction.
- Museums.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 113 pages : illustrations ; 21 x 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : HarperCollins Publishers, [1999]
- Summary:
- Part narrative, part surreal catalogue, The Museum at Purgatory follows the post-death journey of the mysterious Curator Non as he gathers together artists and collectors, sifting and analyzing their lives, all in a desperate attempt to break the amnesia that stops him from embarking on his passage to Heaven or Hell.
- Once again Bantock demonstrates his unique gift of combining words and stunning images to craft an extraordinary tale--a story so unlikely that it has the audacity to include the meaning of life within its introduction.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Catalogue of Galleries
- The Winter Room
- Obscure Objects 2
- The Fitzgerald Room
- Magic Carpets 14
- The Gazio Room
- Shrines & Navigational Boxes 22
- The Amorfe Room
- Entomological Amalgams 30
- The Delancet Room
- Lost Post 38
- The Nathius Room
- Games 48
- The Levant Room
- Spinning Tops 58
- The Sengler Room
- Sfumatoglyphics 70
- The Cavarn Room
- Miniature Mummies 78
- The Daniel Room
- Angels & Demons 86
- Part 2 The Curator's Tale 98.
- Notes:
- Sheet of six stamps in pocket.
- ISBN:
- 0067575463 :
- OCLC:
- 40501162
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