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2005
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In the second of Connie Willis' brilliant Oxford trilogy, Ned's holiday in Victorian England becomes a mad struggle to put together a historical jigsaw puzzle involving a cat, a diary, young lovers, and the mysterious bishop's bird stump. Ned is suffering disorientation, maudlin sentimentality and a tendency to become distracted by irrelevancies: classic symptoms of excessive time travel. And no wonder. Oxford's history department has just pulled him out of World War II and Ned's barely had time to wash off the gunpowder when he has a straw boater shoved on his head, a carpetbag in his hand and is thrown straight into Victorian England. For a holiday. But an impossible accident makes it hard to relax. Ned's holiday becomes a mad struggle to put together a historical jigsaw puzzle involving a cat, a diary, young lovers and the mysterious bishop's bird stump. If he can't make all the pieces fit it could mean the end of history itself. To Say Nothing of the Dog is a delightful and intriguing mystery spanning almost two centuries. About the Author : In the tradition of Jean M. Auel (Clan of the Cave Bear) and Marion Zimmer Bradley (The Mists of Avalon), Connie Willis is a prodigiously gifted storyteller who manages to blend fantasy, science fiction, history and romance into her award-winning novels and short stories. She has won six Nebula and six Hugo Awards (more than any other writer in the genre) and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for her first novel, Lincoln's Dreams. Her novel Doomsday Book won both the Nebula and Hugo Awards, and her first short-story collection, Fire Watch, was a New York Times Notable Book. Connie was born in 1945 and is married to physicist Courtney Willis. They have one daughter, Cordelia, and live in Greeley, Colorado. (Pages:588) Ned is suffering disorientation, maudlin sentimentality and a tendency to become distracted by irrelevances: classic symptoms of excessive time travel. And no wonder. Oxford's history department has just pulled him out of World War II. [When referring to this item please quote stockid 18670]
ISBN: 1741141966
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