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The rise & fall of great powers : a novel / Tom Rachman.

Title
The rise & fall of great powers : a novel / Tom Rachman.
Author
Rachman, Tom
Publication
New York : The Dial Press, [2014]

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384 pages; 25 cm
Summary
  • Enduring life in an isolated bookstore on the Welsh countryside, young American woman Tooly reflects on her childhood under the care of bandits before a long-lost boyfriend offers clues to help her with unanswered questions.
  • Taken from home as a girl, Tooly found herself spirited away by a group of seductive outsiders, implicated in capers from Asia to Europe to the United States. But who were her abductors? Why did they take her? What did they really want? Now the American owner of an isolated bookshop in the Welsh countryside, Tooly conducts a life full of reading, but with few human beings. Books are safer than people, who might ask awkward questions about her life. Then startling news arrives from a long-lost boyfriend in New York, raising old mysteries and propelling her on a quest around the world in search of answers.
Alternative Title
Rise and fall of great powers
Subject
  • Women booksellers > Fiction
  • Americans > Wales > Fiction
  • Early memories > Fiction
  • Self-actualization (Psychology) > Fiction
  • Americans
  • Early memories
  • Self-actualization (Psychology)
  • Women booksellers
  • Wales
Genre/Form
  • Fiction
  • Fiction.
  • Bildungsromans.
  • Bildungsromans
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9780679643654 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
  • 0679643656 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
  • 9780812995725 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
  • 0812995724 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • ^^2013035825
  • 40023906012
OCLC
858940211
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library