The Ruins /

The Ruins / / Trace Farrell.

Set among the spinning cogs and wheels of a lavish dinner club for the "gastronomical Elect," The Ruins is a black-eyed, Machiavellian fairy tale for adults, a gleeful cautionary discourse on ambition and ingratitude, and the penalties for disbelief in those forces within oneself. Like all...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Farrell, Trace,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020]
©1998
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, etc.
  • CHAPTER ONE. In Which Our Hero's Knees—Dicey, a Hazard in the Best of Times—Have Never Been Worse . . .
  • CHAPTER TWO. The Consummate Martooni
  • CHAPTER THREE. Beauty, Truth, and a Call to First Principles
  • CHAPTER FOUR. In Which Tom Is Keacquainted with Some Old Friends
  • CHAPTER FIVE. A Real Mob Scene
  • CHAPTER SIX. Tango Romantico
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Mortificatio
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. The Ball (About Which Please See Explanatory Remark)
  • CHAPTER NINE. Sacrificio
  • CHAPTER TEN. Kee-kee-kkiree! An Epilogue . . .
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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