<![CDATA[The Bestiary]]>

false <![CDATA[The Bestiary]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167348040m/22270.jpg 22270 3 From “a writer of remarkable gifts,” “Borges with emotional weight, comes a tale that is at once a fantastical historical mystery, a haunting love story, and a glimpse into the uncanny—the quest for a long-lost book detailing the animals left off Noah’s Ark. Xeno Atlas grows up in the Bronx, his Sicilian grandmother’s strange stories of animal spirits his only escape from the legacy of his mother’s early death and his stern father’s long absences as a common seaman. Shunted off to an isolated boarding school, with his father’s activities abroad and the source of his newfound wealth grown increasingly mysterious, Xeno turns his early fascination with animals into a personal obsession: his search for the Caravan Bestiary. This medieval text, lost for eight hundred years, supposedly details the animals not granted passage on the Ark—griffins, hippogriffs, manticores, and basilisks—the vanished remnants of a lost world sometimes glimpsed in the shadowy recesses of our own. Xeno’s quest takes him from the tenements of New York to the jungles of Vietnam to the ancient libraries of Europe—but it is only by riddling out his own family secrets that he can hope to find what he is looking for. A story of panoramic scope and intellectual suspense, The Bestiary is ultimately a tale of heartbreak and redemption. 23325 2007 The Bestiary total:190|5:20|4:66|3:61|2:36|1:7| 190 626 351 68 3 11 false false Sun Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 23:37:33 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 18:35:29 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 29 12:48:52 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 29 12:49:46 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 2 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 18 09:24:08 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 18 09:24:16 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 05 21:59:22 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 07 09:28:05 -0800 2008
Christopher's writing is a little choppy, ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 02 11:48:58 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 16 13:34:28 -0800 2008
What this is, instead, is a more realistic de...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 07 12:11:42 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 03 13:12:06 -0800 2007 more...]]> 2 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 06 14:21:21 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 06 14:29:55 -0800 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Aug 03 19:06:36 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 19:06:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 16:32:58 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 16:39:20 -0700 2009
I found this book while browing a bookstore in Traverse City for another of Christopher's A Trip To The Stars. They didn't have the other book, but they did have this one.

It was an enjoyable book, a kinda of literary quest book. Not a lot of action, but inte...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed May 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 14:38:19 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 06:17:58 -0700 2009
The back jacket says this is a book about a quest to find the Caravan Bestiary, a legendary, lost illuminated manuscript detailing all the mythical crea...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 16 12:28:43 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 12:50:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false true Wed May 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 09:13:46 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 10:20:11 -0700 2009
Firstly, it is pedantic to accent English/Anglicized words so that the readers all think the emphasis on the same syllable. Was it so im...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:50:49 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:50:49 -0800 2009 The Bestiary, Nicholas Christopher's fifth novel-after Franklin Flyer (2002) and A Trip to the Stars (2000)-has more than a little in common with Dan Brown's hugely popular The Da Vinci Code: the plots of both books are driven by a search for a lost object whose disappearance involves significant re...

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The Bestiary tells us the story of Xeno Atlas and his ongoing search for "The Caravan Bestiary". Xeno is a man who has grown from a childhood mixed with both loyal care (his gran...more...]]> 3 0 false true Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Feb 03 16:08:06 -0800 2008 Mon May 12 09:32:23 -0700 2008
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