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Hardcover:
9780374224240 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 2, 2013, cover price $26.00
9780263164060, titled "A Marriage Betrayed" | Large print edition (Harlequin Mills & Boon, May 1, 2000), cover price $22.95 | also contains A Marriage Betrayed
Paperback:
9781250043641 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, April 1, 2014), cover price $17.00
A stunningly original novel of literary obsession and imagination that is sure to be one of the most highly anticipated debuts of the year. From a precociously talented young writer already widely admired in the literary world, The Mayorâs Tongue is a bold, vertiginous debut novel that unfolds in two complementary narratives, one following a young man and the other an old man. The young man is Eugene Brentani, aflame with a passion for literature and language, and a devotee of the reclusive author and adventurer Constance Eakins, now living in Italy. The old man is Mr. Schmitz, whose wife is dying, and, confused and terrified, he longs to confide in his dear friend Rutherford. But Rutherford has disappeared, and his letters, postmarked from Italy, become more and more ominous as the weeks pass. In separate but resonating story lines, both menâs adventures take them from New York City to the mountainous borderlands of northern Italy, where the line between reality and imagination begins to blur and stories take on a life of their own. Here, we are immersed in Richâs vivid, enchanting world full of captivating charactersâ the despairing Enzo, who wanders looking for a nameless love; the tiny, doll-like guide, Lang; and the grotesque Eakins. Over this strange, spectral landscape looms the Mayor, a mythic and monstrous figure considered a âbeautiful creatorâ by his townspeople, whose pull ultimately becomes irresistible. From a young writer of exceptional promise, this refreshingly original novel is a meditation on the frustrations of love, the madness of mayors, the failings of language, and the transformative powers of storytelling.
Hardcover:
9781594489907 | Riverhead Books, April 17, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A stunningly original novel of literary obsession and imagination that is sure to be one of the most highly anticipated debuts of the year.
Paperback:
9781594483684 | Reprint edition (Riverhead Books, April 7, 2009), cover price $16.00
9780701183349 | Vintage Uk, January 15, 2009, cover price $21.65 | About this edition: The Mayor's Tongue is a bold, vertiginous debut novel that unfolds in two narratives, one following a young man and the other an old man.
Paperback:
9781892145307 | Little Bookroom, March 10, 2005, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: An entertaining survey of film noir set in San Francisco covers The Maltese Falcon, Dark Passage, Woman on the Run, D.
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