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The Coincidence Engine
Sam Leith
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Description for The Coincidence Engine
Paperback. A wonderfully clever and unique debut Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 204. 288 pages. A wonderfully clever and unique debut Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 19. Weight: 200.
Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction ‘A tremendous novel - droll, savvy, original. An invigorating blast of fiction' William Boyd ‘A superbly entertaining brain-twister' The Times A hurricane sweeps off the Gulf of Mexico and in the back-country of Alabama, assembles a passenger jet out of old bean-cans and junkyard waste. An eccentric mathematician - last heard of investigating the physics of free will and ranting about the devil - vanishes in the French Pyrenees. And the thuggish operatives of a multinational arms conglomerate are closing in on Alex Smart - a ... Read more
Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction ‘A tremendous novel - droll, savvy, original. An invigorating blast of fiction' William Boyd ‘A superbly entertaining brain-twister' The Times A hurricane sweeps off the Gulf of Mexico and in the back-country of Alabama, assembles a passenger jet out of old bean-cans and junkyard waste. An eccentric mathematician - last heard of investigating the physics of free will and ranting about the devil - vanishes in the French Pyrenees. And the thuggish operatives of a multinational arms conglomerate are closing in on Alex Smart - a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408821725
SKU
V9781408821725
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Ref
99-10
About Sam Leith
Sam Leith writes for many leading publications including the Guardian and the Evening Standard. He is the former Literary Editor of the Telegraph. His previous books, Dead Pets, and Sods Law, have been published to critical acclaim. The Coincidence Engine is his first novel. Sam Leith lives in London.
Reviews for The Coincidence Engine
‘A tremendous novel - droll, savvy, original. An invigorating blast of fiction'
William Boyd
‘A superbly entertaining brain-twister'
The Times
‘This is a novel of ideas [...] Sam Leith pulls it off with admirable imaginative stamina, helped along by sharply observed and entertaining writing'
Independent
‘Witty and inventive, like southing out of Hitchcock ... Read more
William Boyd
‘A superbly entertaining brain-twister'
The Times
‘This is a novel of ideas [...] Sam Leith pulls it off with admirable imaginative stamina, helped along by sharply observed and entertaining writing'
Independent
‘Witty and inventive, like southing out of Hitchcock ... Read more