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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2001, c2000
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
305 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A postgraduate at a nameless English university, narrator Phineas G. Nanson decides to abandon his studies as a poststructuralist literary critic to become a biographer instead. He chooses as his subject one Scholes Destry-Scholes, who himself was a biographer of genius. Destry-Scholes's magnum opus was a biography of the Victorian polymath Sir Elmer Bole, a famous explorer, soldier, diplomat, scientist, travel writer, novelist and poetAin short,...
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