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Leonardo's horse / a novel by R.M. Berry.
Van Pelt Library PS3552.E748 L46 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berry, R. M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519--Fiction.
- Leonardo.
- Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 317 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Normal, Ill. : FC2, [1997]
- Summary:
- On May 2, 1519, at the Clos Luce in Amboise, Leonardo da Vinci is dying. He no longer cares about art or science. He wants only to answer a simple question about his life: why did he abandon his colossal equestrian statue in Milan? Meanwhile, R --, a twentieth-century historian writing a novel about Leonardo, meditates upon the same question in the midst of an apocalyptic traffic jam, as military helicopters fill the air with tear gas, AIDS demonstrators run amok, and a hospital evacuates its patients onto a nearby sidewalk.
- Berry's stupendous novel is a fitting response to the close of a century obsessed with the "end of history". This book is a masterpiece of a kind rarely dared in the contemporary novel.
- ISBN:
- 1573660310
- OCLC:
- 38214079
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