Více o knize
Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to him in his dreams. Meeting on his adventures a host of cannibals, centaurs and acrobats, Desiderio must battle against unreality and the warping of time and space to be with her, as the Doctor reduces Desiderio's city to a chaotic state of emergency - one ridden with madness, crime and sexual excess.A satirical tale of magic and sex, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman is a dazzling quest for truth, love and identity.
Nákup knihy
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, Angela Carter
- Jazyk
- Rok vydání
- 1986
- Vazba
- (měkká)
Doručení
Platební metody
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- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- Angela Carter
- Vydavatel
- PENGUIN GROUP
- Rok vydání
- 1986
- Vazba
- měkká
- ISBN10
- 0140235191
- ISBN13
- 9780140235197
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletrie, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Klasika, 20. století, Magický realismus
- Hodnocení
- 3,8 z 5
- Anotace
- Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to him in his dreams. Meeting on his adventures a host of cannibals, centaurs and acrobats, Desiderio must battle against unreality and the warping of time and space to be with her, as the Doctor reduces Desiderio's city to a chaotic state of emergency - one ridden with madness, crime and sexual excess.A satirical tale of magic and sex, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman is a dazzling quest for truth, love and identity.