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The Theory of Clouds
1st paperback ed
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Akira Kumo miraculously survived the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima. Now an eccentric couturier living in Paris, he has the world's largest collection of literature on clouds and meteorology, which he hires Virginie Latour to catalog. As they work, he tells her the stories of those who have devoted their lives to clouds: the English Quaker who first classified clouds, the painter who became obsessed with capturing clouds on canvas, and the wealthy late-nineteenth-century amateur meteorologist Richard Abercrombie, a photographer who may have created the only definitive catalog of clouds-but only one copy exists, and it has never been seen. Kumo sends Virginie to London to track down the fabled Abercrombie Protocol, a quest both surprising and wondrous, where love, like clouds, forms and transforms lives.
Sensual, hypnotic, deeply erotic, The Theory of Clouds is a novel of clouds-both historical and imaginative-and how they shape our passions, our storms, and our stories.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780156034814 |
Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Imprint: | Mariner Books |
Pub date: | 08 Sep 2008 |
Edition: | 1st paperback ed |
DEWEY: | 843.92 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Number of pages: | 266 |
Weight: | 249g |
Height: | 203mm |
Width: | 134mm |
Spine width: | 20mm |