Salvage and demolition

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Tim Powers: Salvage and demolition (2013, Subterranean Press)

155 pages

English language

Published Sept. 22, 2013 by Subterranean Press.

ISBN:
978-1-59606-515-4
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OCLC Number:
812257176

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"Richard Blanzac, a San Francisco-based rare book dealer, opens a box of consignment items and encounters the unexpected. There, among an assortment of literary rarities, he discovers a manuscript in verse, an Ace Double Novel, and a scattering of very old cigarette butts. These commonplace objects serve as catalysts for an extraordinary-- and unpredictable-- adventure. Without warning, Blanzac finds himself traversing a 'circle of discontinuity' that leads from the present day to the San Francisco of 1957. Caught up in that circle are an ancient Sumerian deity, a forgotten Beat-era poet named Sophie Greenwald, and an apocalyptic cult in search of the key to absolute non-existence" -- from publisher's web site.

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Subjects

  • Antiquarian booksellers
  • Time travel
  • Fiction

Places

  • San Francisco (Calif.)