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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0151006903
ISBN-13: 9780151006908
Oct 2002
Publisher: Harcourt
528 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Baudolino is an 11th-century adventurer who is relating his story to a historian. The events of his extravagant life include his early precocity, his adoption by the emperor Frederick Barbarossa, his studies in Paris, his search for the Holy Grail, and his love for a woman who is half human and half unicorn. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
| Size | | Length: | 528 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 31.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"[E]rudite and intermittently sluggish....[A]ction is kept to a minimum while Eco permits his characters to engage in lengthy philosophical conversations...."
Kirkus Reviews (08/01/2002)
"[Eco] can't draw characters to save his life: what he gives us are flat cartoon figures spouting ideas. Theological digressions are everywhere. There's no real plot. The successive invasion of Italy confuse. No matter. Thanks in part to the unobtrusive skill of Eco's regular translator, William Weaver, BAUDOLINO, with its richly variegated haul of medieval treasures, remains compulsively readable."
New York Times Book Review - Peter Green (11/03/2002)
"[A] whimsical yet deadly earnest tale...."
New Yorker (12/02/2002)
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