The teleportation accident : a novel / Ned Beauman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beauman, Ned.

Contributor:

Roberta S. & Leonard S. Leibman, W'53 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Set designers--Fiction.

Set designers.

Teleportation--Fiction.

Teleportation.

History.

Germany--History--1918-1933--Fiction.

Germany.

California--History--1850-1950--Fiction.

California.

Genre:

Fiction.

History.

Alternative histories (Fiction)

Physical Description:

357 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury, 2013.

Summary:

"In the declining Weimar Republic, Egon Loeser works as a stage designer for New Expressionist theatre. His hero is the greatest set designer of the seventeenth century, Adriano Lavicini, who devised the so-called Teleportation Device for the whisking of actors from one scene to another-a miracle, until the thing malfunctioned, causing numerous deaths and perhaps summoning the devil himself. Apolitical in a dangerous time, sex-driven in a dry spell, Loeser leaves the tired scene in Berlin in pursuit of the lubricious Adele Hitler (no relation), who couldn't care less about him. Heading first to Paris and then to Los Angeles, he finds his entire tired Berlin social circle reconstituted in exile, under the patronage of a crime writer and his possibly philandering wife. He also finds himself uncomfortably close to a string of murders at Caltech, where a physicist, assisted by Adele herself, is trying to develop a device for honest-to-God teleportation. Following his breathtaking debut, Boxer, Beetle, Ned Beauman ups the ante, creating in The Teleportation Accident a marvelous mash-up of historical fiction, L.A. noir, science fiction, and satire, and proving himself a star on the rise"-- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Roberta S. & Leonard S. Leibman, W'53 Fund.

ISBN:

9781620400227

1620400227

9781620400234

1620400235

OCLC:

795175001

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