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Me and Kaminski
Daniel Kehlmann
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Description for Me and Kaminski
Paperback. A hopeless art critic sets out to write the biography that will make his name. Translator(s): Janeway, Carol Brown. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 146.
A wryly comic account of a career in meltdown, from the author of Measuring the World
'An accessible and humorous road trip into the worlds of art and journalism, satirising both' - New Statesman
Sebastian Zollner is set on writing the biography of the painter Manuel Kaminski.
Yet Kaminski - once a pupil of Matisse, now an ailing recluse - is not the kind of character to willingly embrace such a project.
And Zollner - inept, charmless, and with scant knowledge of art history - is hardly the man to undertake it.
So it's a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Quercus Publishing Plc United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
149g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847249890
SKU
V9781847249890
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Ref
99-1
About Daniel Kehlmann
Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich in 1975 and lives in Vienna, Berlin and New York. He has published six novels: Measuring the World, Me & Kaminski, Fame, F, You Should Have Left and Tyll and has won numerous prizes, including the Candide Prize, the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Doderer Prize, The Kleist Prize, the WELT ... Read more
Reviews for Me and Kaminski
Very funny ... Sparkling and consistently amusing comedy, by turns broad and sophisticated
Daily Telegraph
'The novel barrels along like a top-of-the-range BMW on a deserted autobahn ... The comedy has a touching, tender precision'
Independent
An accessible and humorous road trip into the worlds of art and journalism, satirising both
New Statesman
'Witty, ... Read more
Daily Telegraph
'The novel barrels along like a top-of-the-range BMW on a deserted autobahn ... The comedy has a touching, tender precision'
Independent
An accessible and humorous road trip into the worlds of art and journalism, satirising both
New Statesman
'Witty, ... Read more