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Madness is better than defeat
- Title
- Madness is better than defeat / Ned Beauman.
- Author
- Beauman, Ned
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
- ©2017
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 18-2831 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 399 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "A wild, astonishing novel (by arguably England's most accomplished young writer) about Manhattan and Hollywood in the 1930s, Mayan gods, and a CIA operation gone terribly wrong--and the Booker short-listed Ned Beauman's magnum opus thus far. In 1938, two rival expeditions descend on an ancient temple recently discovered in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a screwball comedy on location there, the other to disassemble the temple and ship it back to New York. A seemingly endless stalemate ensues, and twenty years later a rogue CIA agent sets out to exploit it for his own ends, unaware that the temple is a locus of conspiracies grander than anyone could ever have guessed. Shot through with insanity, conspiracy, ingenuity, and adventure, showcasing Beauman's anarchic humor, spectacular imagination, and riveting prose, Madness Is Better Than Defeat teases, absorbs, entertains, and dazzles in equal measure"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Action and adventure fiction.
- Fiction.
- Humorous fiction.
- Note
- "This is Borzoi Book."
- "Originally published in Great Britain by Sceptre, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, a Hachette UK company, London, in 2017."
- Call Number
- JFE 18-2831
- ISBN
- 9780385352994
- 0385352999
- LCCN
- 2017024820
- 99975600554
- OCLC
- 987429650
- Author
- Beauman, Ned, author.
- Title
- Madness is better than defeat / Ned Beauman.
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Edition
- First United States edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- Online version: Beauman, Ned. Madness is better than defeat. First United States edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018 9780385353007 (DLC) 2017027794
- Other Standard Identifier
- 99975600554
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-2831