Babayaga |
Book Category:
Fiction > General
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Author:
Barlow, Toby
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Binding:
Hardcover
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ISBN 13:
9780374107871
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Price:
USD 27.00
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Publication Year:
2013
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Publisher Info
Talia Sherer,
Macmillan,175 Fifth Avenue, 21st Floor,
New York ,
New York - 10010,USA Inquiry
By the author of Sharp Teeth, a novel of love, spies, and witches in 1950s Paris--and a cop turned into a flea. Will is a young American ad executive in Paris. Except his agency is a front for the CIA. It's 1959 and the cold war is going strong. But Will doesn't think he's a warrior--he's just a good-hearted Detroit ad guy who can't seem to figure out Parisian girls.Add a few chance encounters, a chorus of some more angry witches, a strung-out jazzman or two, a weaponized LSD program, and a cache of rifles buried in the Bois de Bologne--and that's a novel! But while Toby Barlow's Babayaga may start as just a joyful romp though the City of Light, it quickly grows into a daring, moving exploration of love, mortality, and responsibility.