The facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios / Yann Martel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martel, Yann.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi, 208 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

Orlando : Harcourt, [2004]

Summary:

Here are Four unforgettable stories by the author of Life of Pi. In the exquisite title novella, a very young man dying of AIDS joins his friend in fashioning a story of the Roccamatio family of Helsinki, set against the yearly march of the twentieth century whose horrors and miracles their story echoes. In "The Time I Heard the Private Donald J. Rankin String Concerto with One Discordant Violin, by the American composer John Morton," a Canadian university student visits Washington, D.C., and experiences the Vietnam War and its aftermath through an intense musical encounter. In "Manners of Dying," variations of a warden's letter to the mother of a man he has just executed reveal how each life is contained in its end. The final story, "The Vita AEterna Mirror Company: Mirrors to Last till Kingdom Come," is about a young man who discovers an antique mirror-making machine that runs on memories and fashions a unique reflection of his relationship with his grandmother. Written earlier in Martel's career, these tales are as moving as they are thought-provoking, as inventive in form as they are timeless in content. They display the startling mix of dazzle and depth that have made Yann Martel an international phenomenon.

Contents:

The facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios

The time I heard the private Donald J. Rankin string concerto with one discordant violin, by the American composer John Morton

Manners of dying

The Vita Aeterna Mirror Company : mirrors to last till kingdom come.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0151010900

OCLC:

56111756

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