The Archivist
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0316158461 / Publisher: Back Bay Books, April 1999
A desperate and madness-tinged quest for a hidden collection of letters by T. S. Eliot drives a young woman to pursue her unique destiny in pre-World War II New York. A first novel. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.
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A young woman's impassioned pursuit of a sealed cache of T. S. Eliot's letters lies at the heart of this emotionally charged novel -- a story of marriage and madness, of faith and desire, of jazz-age New York and Europe in the shadow of the Holocaust. The Archivist was a word-of-mouth bestseller and one of the most jubilantly acclaimed first novels of recent years.
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