The Resource Impossible Views of the World
Impossible Views of the World
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The item Impossible Views of the World represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item Impossible Views of the World represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- Stella Krakus, a curator at Manhattan's renowned Central Museum of Art, is having the roughest week in approximately ever. Her soon-to-be ex-husband (the perfectly awful Whit Ghiscolmbe) is stalking her, a workplace romance with "a fascinating, hyper-rational narcissist" is in freefall, and a beloved colleague, Paul, has gone missing. Strange things are afoot: CeMArt's current exhibit is sponsored by a Belgian multinational that wants to take over the world's water supply, she unwittingly stars in a viral video that's making the rounds, and her mother--the imperious, impossibly glamorous Caro--wants to have lunch. It's almost more than she can overanalyze. But the appearance of a mysterious map, depicting a 19th-century utopian settlement, sends Stella--a dogged expert in American graphics and fluidomanie (don't ask)--on an all-consuming research mission. As she teases out the links between a haunting poem, several unusual novels, a counterfeiting scheme, and one of the museum's colorful early benefactors, she discovers the unbearable secret that Paul's been keeping, and charts a course out of the chaos of her own life. Pulsing with neurotic humor and dagger-sharp prose, Impossible Views of the World is a dazzling debut novel about how to make it through your early thirties with your brain and heart intact
- Language
- eng
- Isbn
- 9780735221543
- Label
- Impossible Views of the World
- Title
- Impossible Views of the World
- Statement of responsibility
- Lucy Ives
- Subject
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- trueMissing persons
- trueCoworkers
- trueFormer husbands
- trueUtopias
- trueMultinational corporations
- trueNew York City
- trueOffice romance
- trueMaps
- trueWomen museum curators
- trueMysteries
- trueArt museums
- trueCounterfeits and counterfeiting
- Crime & Thriller
- trueWomen amateur detectives
- trueHistorical research
- trueFirst person narratives
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Stella Krakus, a curator at Manhattan's renowned Central Museum of Art, is having the roughest week in approximately ever. Her soon-to-be ex-husband (the perfectly awful Whit Ghiscolmbe) is stalking her, a workplace romance with "a fascinating, hyper-rational narcissist" is in freefall, and a beloved colleague, Paul, has gone missing. Strange things are afoot: CeMArt's current exhibit is sponsored by a Belgian multinational that wants to take over the world's water supply, she unwittingly stars in a viral video that's making the rounds, and her mother--the imperious, impossibly glamorous Caro--wants to have lunch. It's almost more than she can overanalyze. But the appearance of a mysterious map, depicting a 19th-century utopian settlement, sends Stella--a dogged expert in American graphics and fluidomanie (don't ask)--on an all-consuming research mission. As she teases out the links between a haunting poem, several unusual novels, a counterfeiting scheme, and one of the museum's colorful early benefactors, she discovers the unbearable secret that Paul's been keeping, and charts a course out of the chaos of her own life. Pulsing with neurotic humor and dagger-sharp prose, Impossible Views of the World is a dazzling debut novel about how to make it through your early thirties with your brain and heart intact
- Summary
- Navigating a sticky personal life, a colleague's disappearance and an exhibit by a megalomaniacal corporation, museum curator Stella comes into possession of a map depicting a mysterious 19th-century utopian settlement and embarks on an all-consuming research mission that is complicated by a counterfeiting scheme
- Award
- Loan Stars Favourites, 2017
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10572965
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1980-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ives, Lucy
- Dewey number
- 813.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
- Crime & Thriller
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Impossible Views of the World
- Control code
- BORROWBOX:PGC_426701
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
- Form of item
- electronic
- http://library.link/vocab/inputERC
- True
- Isbn
- 9780735221543
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Specific material designation
- optical disk
- Label
- Impossible Views of the World
- Control code
- BORROWBOX:PGC_426701
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
- Form of item
- electronic
- http://library.link/vocab/inputERC
- True
- Isbn
- 9780735221543
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Specific material designation
- optical disk
Subject
- trueArt museums
- trueCounterfeits and counterfeiting
- trueCoworkers
- Crime & Thriller
- trueFirst person narratives
- trueFormer husbands
- trueHistorical research
- trueMaps
- trueMissing persons
- trueMultinational corporations
- trueMysteries
- trueNew York City
- trueOffice romance
- trueUtopias
- trueWomen amateur detectives
- trueWomen museum curators
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