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At a dinner party hosted by a wealthy New Yorker, a guest receives a gold adze, the coveted prize in a worm race. When the man dies the next day, he bequeaths, according to a stipulation in his will, the bulk of his fortune to the adze's possessor, provided he answer three mysterious questions relating to the artifact's history. In his search the owner encounters a menagerie of eccentric personalities: an ancient revolutionary in a Parisian prison, a ludicrous pair of gibberish-speaking brothers, and customs officials who spend their time reading contraband materials. He soon finds himself immersed in the centuries-long history of a persecuted religious sect and in an odyssey that begins in a forgotten fog-covered town in Scotland and ends on the ocean floor off the cost of an uncharted French island. A wild goose chase through a remarkably unusual world, The Conversions invites both reader and protagonist to participate in a quest for answers to an elusive game.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Conversions
• Author: Harry Mathews
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9781564781666
• ISBN: 1564781666
• ID: 04813558
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Weight: 258 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 141 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. October 1997

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