The last hiccup
a novel
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Word Count
58,000 words, Guess
Page Count
232 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL25325533M
- ISBN-139781550229738
- OCLC Control Number757055883
- OCLC Control Numberlasthiccupnovel0000mead
- Library of Congress Control Number2012397954
Classifications
- DDCC813/.6
- LCCPR9199.4.M42997 L38 2012
Description
Set in 1930s Russia, this darkly humorous, tragic, and ultimately heroic novel tells the tale of Vladimir, an eight-year-old Russian boy suddenly stricken with a chronic case of the hiccups. He soon finds himself spirited away to a Moscow hospital by the famous physician Sergei Namestikov, who puts him through a series of extraordinary--and often bizarre--treatments in an effort to find a cure. When Sergei's chief medical rival, the brilliant Alexander Afiniganov, discovers that beneath Vladimir's blank eyes lurks a pure, unbridled evil, he takes steps to remove the child from polite society. Abandoned by everyone but his hiccups, Vladimir decides to return to the world he once knew, encountering many strange people and situations along the way.
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- The last hiccup: a novel
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