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Grimus : a novel / Salman Rushdie.
LIBRA - Special PR6068.U757 G7 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rushdie, Salman.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Fiction.
- Indians of North America.
- Mortality.
- Seafaring life--Fiction.
- Seafaring life.
- Immortalism--Fiction.
- Immortalism.
- Mortality--Fiction.
- Islands--Fiction.
- Islands.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Fantasy fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 318 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Modern Library paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Modern Library, 2003.
- Summary:
- After drinking an elixir that bestows immortality upon him, a young Indian named Flapping Eagle spends the next seven hundred years sailing the seas with the blessing, and ultimately the burden, of living forever. Eventually, he grows weary of the sameness of life and journeys to the mountainous Calf Island to regain his mortality. There he meets other immortals obsessed with their own stasis, and he sets out to scale the island's peak, from which the mysterious and corrosive Grimus Effect emits. Through a series of thrilling quests and encounters, Flapping Eagle comes face-to-face with the island's creator and unwinds the mysteries of his own humanity.
- Contents:
- I: Times present
- Flapping eagle
- Bird-dog
- Mr Sispy
- Phoenix
- La femme-crampon
- Voyages
- The gate
- Mr Jones
- Under calf mountain
- Birds
- Hump
- The tremor
- Dimensions
- Enemies
- The trunk
- Snap
- Ascent
- Magister Anagrammari
- Fever
- Jonah
- Strongdancer
- Khallit and Mallit
- The sea
- Tunnel
- Axona's champion
- Out of order
- Terror
- Afterwards
- Deggle
- Valhalla
- II: Times past
- Stones
- Blink
- Outside the Elbaroom
- Inside the Elbaroom
- Invitation
- Gribb
- The rising son
- At the Cherkassovs'
- Sodomy
- The swing
- Black rider
- Madame Jocasta
- On Obsession
- Ostriches & intrusion
- Media
- The pale sorceresses
- Death
- Funerals
- Retreat
- Kill or cure
- Stone
- Mrs O'Toole
- Anagram
- III: Grimus
- Fifty-four
- The stone rose.
- ISBN:
- 0812969995
- 9780812969993
- OCLC:
- 52728902
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