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SIGNED ~ PRAGUE by Arthur Phillips (2002, Hardcover) First Edition
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- Signed
- ISBN
- 9780375507878
- Book Title
- Prague
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2002
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.3 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- General, Historical
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Item Weight
- 23.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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A first novel of startling scope and ambition,Praguedepicts an intentionally lost Lost Generation as it follows five American expats who come to Budapest in the early 1990s to seek their fortune-financial, romantic, and spiritual-in an exotic city newly opened to the West. They harbor the vague suspicion that their counterparts in Prague, where the atmospheric decay of postCold War Europe is even more cinematically perfect, have it better. Still, they hope to find adventure, inspiration, a gold rush, or history in the making. What they actually find is a deceptively beautiful place that they often fail to understand. What does it mean to fret about your fledgling career when the man across the table was tortured by two different regimes? How does your short, uneventful life compare to the lives of those who actually resisted, fought, and died? What does your angst mean in a city still pocked with bullet holes from war and crushed rebellion? Journalist John Price finds these questions impossible to answer yet impossible to avoid, though he tries to forget them in the din of Budapest's nightclubs, in a romance with a secretive young diplomat, at the table of an elderly cocktail pianist, and in the moody company of a young man obsessed with nostalgia. Arriving in Budapest one spring day to pursue his elusive brother, John finds himself pursuing something else entirely, something he can't quite put a name to, something that will draw him into stories much larger than himself. With humor, intelligence, masterly prose, and profound affection for both Budapest and his own characters, Arthur Phillips not only captures his contemporaries but also brilliantly renders the Hungary of past and present: the generations of failed revolutionaries and lyric poets, opportunists and profiteers, heroes and storytellers.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375507876
ISBN-13
9780375507878
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2242882
Product Key Features
Book Title
Prague
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General, Historical
Publication Year
2002
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Item Weight
23.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3616.H45p73 2002
Reviews
"Dazzling...brilliant...the most memorable fiction debut of the year." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Arthur Phillips's bold and ambitious novel, Prague, is one of those rare books that help define and identify a whole generation, in the same way that Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises introduced his lost generation." -Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides "In Prague, Arthur Phillips spins the Jazz Age novel. His expatriate Americans have settled in Budapest rather than Paris, and instead of champagne and ragtime, they outfit themselves with Gauloises, paprika-dusted sandwiches, punk rock, and postCold War irony. But their passion-to know America and to shrug it off-is timelessly literary. A hip-hop remix of Fitzgerald and Hemingway, a meditation on a generation, a polemic, a love story, a new branch of sociology, Prague tries to do it all and succeeds." -Pagan Kennedy, author of Black Livingstone "An intricate and wordly-wise novel, with sly and acute perceptions on every page, Prague sets itself the challenge of extending the tradition of brainy Central European fiction from an American perspective, and succeeds handily." -Phillip Lopate, author of Portrait of My Body "Phillips's exhilarating exploration of time, memory, and nostalgia brings to mind such giants as Proust and Joyce." -Library Journal
Copyright Date
2002
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2001-048975
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Dewey Edition
22
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