The Conversions

Name: The Conversions
Brand: Deep Vellum Publishing
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By: Harry Mathews, Harry Matthews

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Paperback | 7 January 1998

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Paperback
192 Pages

Edition Type
New edition

Age
22+

Dimensions(cm)
21.6 x 13.9 x 1.4

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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.

Industry Reviews

"Exquisitely stitched narratives, and [a] sense of wonderverging on aweat the world's regal strangeness... inspires [Mathews's] novels... Extraordinary imagination... Told with the strictest economy, without extraneous justification or explanation." -- Times Literary Supplement "The tragi-comedy of human ingenuity, which insists upon interpreting the facts of experience even when they are senseless, baffling, or banal... a remarkable extension and exploration of the odd fictional devices invented by Raymond Roussel." -- Edmund White, New York Times

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