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Description for Tom Harris
Hardback. Num Pages: 291 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
At times in his life, Tom Harris is a dull schoolboy, an apprentice barber, a delinquent husband, an old man with a monkey who drinks at the Green Man Pub, "il professore Harris" at the University of Genoa, and possibly a murderer. But the question of who the elusive Tom Harris really is, and what crimes he has really committed, obsesses the narrator of this novel. Tom Harris can perhaps be described as a sort of philosophical detective story, ingeniously plotted and wittily told with a stylistic virtuosity on par with the most playful works of Raymond Queneau.
At times in his life, Tom Harris is a dull schoolboy, an apprentice barber, a delinquent husband, an old man with a monkey who drinks at the Green Man Pub, "il professore Harris" at the University of Genoa, and possibly a murderer. But the question of who the elusive Tom Harris really is, and what crimes he has really committed, obsesses the narrator of this novel. Tom Harris can perhaps be described as a sort of philosophical detective story, ingeniously plotted and wittily told with a stylistic virtuosity on par with the most playful works of Raymond Queneau.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
291
Condition
New
Number of Pages
291
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564783714
SKU
V9781564783714
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99-15
About Stefan Themerson
Stefan Themerson (1910-1988) was born in Poland, moved to Russia during the Revolution, studied physics and architecture in Warsaw, and lived in Paris before settling in London. Aside from his writings--which include novels such as Tom Harris, The Mystery of the Sardine, and Professor Mmaa's Lecture, children's stories, philosophical essays, and poems--Themerson also composed music and made a number of ... Read more
Reviews for Tom Harris
"When all is said and done, Themerson is of the company of Carroll and Queneau, a master of controlled inconsequence, God's spy with no one to give reports to, a fine flea in the ear of the modern novel." - Robert Nye, Guardian; "Stefan Themerson has an absolutely elegant sense of humor." - Albert Goldman, New York Times"