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"I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it."
- Virginia Woolf
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ZIN Product Number: 10277937
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802136966
Release Date: Jan 1, 2000
| |  | | | In Brief
"In a coastal city of a police state, Nicholas, like his more renowneddead father before him, works as a university history professor. A passive, anxious man, he lives alone and labors to satisfy department requirements by writing a history of insurance centered around the construction of a Dutch Renaissance opera house." (Libr J)
| | | | From The Publisher
This darkly comic novel chronicles the life of Nicholas Dee, an earnest young historian whose crippling fear of loss has become his undoing. Lulled to sleep at night by the city's constant clatter of police choppers, Nicholas parlays his fear of losing everything into a promising idea for an academic grant: He will write a "History of Insurance." In this glittering, unidentified city of high culture and hideous crime, Nicholas can find no safe haven for the orderly life he desires. At night he is haunted by memories of his dead father; by day the devilish machinations of the university and the police ensnare him. His book, already evolving from a history of insurance into a compelling narrative tale (chronicling the creation of an opera house in seventeenth-century Holland), becomes his only refuge. "I had begun to lose myself, ever so slightly, in the handful of stories my life was generating: the opera house of Alton Motley beckoned me.... Memories of my father were gathering thick and last. Alive in the middle, l kept silent and observed the conduct of my researches into each of them." But his fragile stability cannot hold. While the city, washing away under ceaseless storms, descends into its midwinter carnival, Nicholas receives a phone call from the police. A curiously "gifted" illiterate boy named Oscar Vega has been arrested, and Nicholas becomes his custodian. The novel moves from stark realism into a kind of Kafkaesque grotesquerie as the real power behind these manifold changes reveals itself to him: Amelia Weathered, an ageless imperious dwarf, has set this vortex turning - it is into her seductions that he has fallen. "'She,' as she was known to me for several weeks thereafter, emerged like a crushed star and occupied an invisible position of gravity around which my life soon began spinning." Gradually, and with supreme intelligence, Amelia takes possession of Nicholas - and his book. She kindles his love for Oscar Vega, letting stories of the boy'
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