C
- Author/Creator:
- McCarthy, Tom, 1969 May 22-
- Publication/Creation:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Edition:
- 1st U.S. edition.
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- Full Title:
- C / Tom McCarthy
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Description/Summary
- Summary:
- "Opening in England at the turn of the twentieth century, C is the story of a boy named Serge Carrefax, whose father spends his time experimenting with wireless communication while running a school for deaf children. Serge grows up amid the noise and silence with his brilliant but troubled older sister, Sophie: an intense sibling relationship that stays with him as he heads off into an equally troubled larger world. After a fling with a nurse at a Bohemian spa, Serge serves in World War I as a radio operator for reconnaissance planes. When his plane is shot down, Serge is taken to a German prison camp, from which he escapes. Back in London, he's recruited for a mission to Cairo on behalf of the shadowy Empire Wireless Chain. All of which eventually carries Serge to a fitful, and perhaps fateful, climax at the bottom of an Egyptian tomb..."--Jacket.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- 310 pages ; 25 cm
- General Note:
- "A Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 990016416130302486
- ISBN:
- 0307593339
9780307593337 - OCLC Number:
- 491896256
- Barcode:
- 010002453063
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