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100 1 _aBeauman, Ned
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245 1 0 _aMadness is better than defeat /
_cby Ned Beauman.
250 _aFirst United States edition.
263 _a1802
264 1 _aNew York :
_bAlfred A. Knopf,
_c2018.
264 4 _c©2017
264 1 _a[Place of publication not identified] :
_b[Publisher not identified],
_c2018.
300 _apages cm
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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380 _aBook
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380 _aFiction
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385 _aGeneral
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500 _a"This is Borzoi Book."
500 _a"Originally published in Great Britain by Sceptre, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, a Hachette UK company, London, in 2017."
520 _a"A wild, astonishing novel (by arguably England's most accomplished young writer) about Manhattan and Hollywood in the 1930s, Mayan gods, and a CIA operation gone terribly wrong--and the Booker short-listed Ned Beauman's magnum opus thus far. In 1938, two rival expeditions descend on an ancient temple recently discovered in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a screwball comedy on location there, the other to disassemble the temple and ship it back to New York. A seemingly endless stalemate ensues, and twenty years later a rogue CIA agent sets out to exploit it for his own ends, unaware that the temple is a locus of conspiracies grander than anyone could ever have guessed. Shot through with insanity, conspiracy, ingenuity, and adventure, showcasing Beauman's anarchic humor, spectacular imagination, and riveting prose, Madness Is Better Than Defeat teases, absorbs, entertains, and dazzles in equal measure"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 7 _aFICTION / Literary.
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650 7 _aFICTION / Psychological.
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776 0 8 _aBeauman, Ned, author.
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_tMadness is better than defeat
_bFirst United States edition.
_dNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018
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