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Dream of Scipio

Name: Dream of Scipio
Price: 8.99 USD
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Author: Iain Pears
ISBN: 9781440622045

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Published on Jun 03, 2003 | 416 Pages

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Published on Jun 03, 2003 | 416 Pages

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In national bestseller The Dream of Scipio, acclaimed author Iain Pears intertwines three intellectual mysteries, three love stories, and three of the darkest moments in human history. United by a classical text called “The Dream of Scipio,” three men struggle to find refuge for their hearts and minds from the madness that surrounds them in the final days of the Roman Empire, in the grim years of the Black Death, and in the direst hours of World War II. An ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice.

Iain Pears’s An Instance of the Fingerpost and The Portrait are also available from Riverhead Books.

“A thrilling journey through history, into the human heart and soul.”&#151Washington Post

“Braiding together parallel plots of romance and political intrigue set in Provence during three dark eras, The Dream of Scipio is a murder mystery on the grandest scale…[Pears] invests his complex story with piquancy, irony, and humor. Their is much to ponder here, from Neoplatonic philosophy to anti-Semitism to public duty…Eye-opening.”&#151People

“A multilayered tale of moral choice, love, danger and loss.”&#151The New York Times Book Review

“An adventure and achievement to match An Instance of the Fingerpost.”&#151San Francisco Chronicle

“A dazzling triptych of love and ideas…Pears leaves us with a dream, not only of destruction, but of immense and unexpected heroism.”&#151Boston Globe

“[An] ambitious, heartfelt, and thought-provoking book, one that should find a home in the heart of every thinking reader.”&#151Portland Oregonian

“This is a dream that will stay with the reader for a long, long time.”&#151Montreal Gazette

“A novel for our time about all time. Wildly entertaining.”&#151The Christian Science Monitor

“Complex, surprising and thought-provoking, a dream of a novel in more senses than one.”&#151Wall Street Journal

Author

Iain Pears

Iain Pears is the author of the bestsellers An Instance of the Fingerpost, The Dream of Scipio, Stone’s Fall, and Arcadia, and a novella, The Portrait, as well as a series of acclaimed detective novels, a book of art history, and countless articles on artistic, financial and historical subjects. He lives in Oxford, England.

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