Publication

1991 - Plume, New York, N.Y., U.S.A, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

75,250 words, Guess

Page Count

301 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780452266476
  • Open LibraryOL1540669M

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3569.T149 L35 1991
  • LCCPS3569.T149L35 1991

Description

Amid the rubble of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake, Max Kosegarten, the narrator of this lyrical first novel, becomes the inseparable boyhood friend of Duncan Taqdir, son of a Persian sculptor and an English archaeologist. Set mainly in 1914-1916 and told in diary-like entries interspersed with 36 brooding illustrations by the author, the story follows the boys as they become lovers, ultimately separated by college and a tragic accident. Together they explore California's woods, beaches and mountains, and search for evidence of the earthquake that brought them together. Their excavations as well as Max's reading of Ruskin and Cicero, point to this sensitive novel's motif: how memory accretes into character and shapes perception.

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Other Editions

  • LandscapePlume1991

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