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The Resource The liar's dictionary : a novel, Eley Williams
The liar's dictionary : a novel, Eley Williams
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The item The liar's dictionary : a novel, Eley Williams represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 13 library branches.
Resource Information
The item The liar's dictionary : a novel, Eley Williams represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 13 library branches.
- Summary
- Peter Winceworth is a lexicographer in Victorian-era London, toiling away at the letter "S" for a multi-volume Encyclopaedic Dictionary. Secretly, he begins to insert unauthorized fictitious entries into the dictionary in an attempt to assert some artistic freedom. In the present day, Mallory is a young intern employed by the same publisher. Her task is to uncover these entries before the dictionary is digitized. She also has to contend with threatening phone calls from an anonymous caller. Why, she wonders, is the change in the definition of "marriage" so upsetting to the caller? And does the caller really intend for the publisher's staff to "burn in hell"? As these two narratives, characters and times entwine, both Winceworth and Mallory discover how they might negotiate the complexities of the nonsensical, relentless, untrustworthy, hoax-strewn and undefinable path we call life
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The liar's dictionary : a novel
- Title
- The liar's dictionary
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Eley Williams
- Subject
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- Language and languages -- Fiction
- Lexicographers -- Fiction
- London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- Fiction
- Publishers and publishing -- England | London -- Fiction
- London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century -- Fiction
- Interns -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Peter Winceworth is a lexicographer in Victorian-era London, toiling away at the letter "S" for a multi-volume Encyclopaedic Dictionary. Secretly, he begins to insert unauthorized fictitious entries into the dictionary in an attempt to assert some artistic freedom. In the present day, Mallory is a young intern employed by the same publisher. Her task is to uncover these entries before the dictionary is digitized. She also has to contend with threatening phone calls from an anonymous caller. Why, she wonders, is the change in the definition of "marriage" so upsetting to the caller? And does the caller really intend for the publisher's staff to "burn in hell"? As these two narratives, characters and times entwine, both Winceworth and Mallory discover how they might negotiate the complexities of the nonsensical, relentless, untrustworthy, hoax-strewn and undefinable path we call life
- Cataloging source
- NLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Williams, Eley
- Dewey number
- 823/.92
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Lexicographers
- Interns
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries
- Language and languages
- Publishers and publishing
- London (England)
- London (England)
- Label
- The liar's dictionary : a novel, Eley Williams
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 270 pages
- Isbn
- 9780735281493
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- on1153264417
- (OCoLC)1153264417
- Label
- The liar's dictionary : a novel, Eley Williams
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 270 pages
- Isbn
- 9780735281493
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- on1153264417
- (OCoLC)1153264417
Subject
- Language and languages -- Fiction
- Lexicographers -- Fiction
- London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- Fiction
- Publishers and publishing -- England | London -- Fiction
- London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century -- Fiction
- Interns -- Fiction
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