false 243145 19 The cerebral thriller <I>Codex</I> drops up-and-coming investment banker wunderkind Edward Wozny into the musty realm of medieval literature, where he finds an unexpected break from the rat race--a powerful client's commission to uncrate and organize a library. The diversion quickly becomes an obsession after he enlists the help of the quirkily attractive scholar Margaret Napier. Together they discover his employer, the mysterious Duchess of Bowmry, is in a race with her husband to locate an apocryphal codex that could destroy the Bowmry name. Meanwhile, Edward becomes engrossed in an addicting computer game that bears an uncanny similarity to the object of his search and accelerates his transformation from Wall Street wizard into shiftless dreamer. <p> For the most part, Edward moves through his adventure merely following Margaret's dedicated lead. As each new twist unfolds, he slips further into the comforting daydream of a life that isn't his but is as thrilling as the race for the codex. <I>Codex</I> wrestles with notions of dreams and reality that commingle as Edward finds himself adrift in a sea of passionate scholars and Old World plots. In all, Lev Grossman's novel is excellent entry into the emerging genre of literary history thrillers with an added twist for the technophile. <I>--Jeremy Pugh</I> 870472 book 2004 Codex total:445|5:19|4:72|3:171|2:137|1:44| 445 1219 720 108 2 1 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 09 19:49:22 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 18 06:57:52 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Dec 01 15:49:28 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 16:04:38 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 11:47:09 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 11:57:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Oct 02 10:26:37 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 10:26:45 -0700 2009
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