The Amputee's Guide to Jules Verne : An Opinionated Consideration of All 66 Novels with 27 Essays
(2025)
By:
Dimartino, Nick
Nonfiction
eAudiobook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Blackstone Publishing, 2025
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Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (21hr., 05 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9798874867089 MWT17169176, 17169176
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by Tad Davis
The Amputee's Guide to Jules Verne is a reader's guide to every novel Verne wrote; in that respect alone, there is no other book like it on the market. But it's more than that. Nick DiMartino has included several essays evaluating Verne's overall approach as a writer and the values embodied in his work. He has included as well a number of deeply personal essays about his struggles with the loneliness, pain, and lack of mobility that came with being an amputee. It isn't a gloomy story, though. It's a celebration - of Verne, of his translators, of the kindness of others, and of life itself. "A great story."
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