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A partial history of lost causes: a novel

✍ Scribed by Jennifer DuBois


Publisher
Random House Publishing Group;Dial Press
Year
2012;2013
Tongue
en-US
Weight
247 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
067960474X

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✦ Synopsis


**"[An] astonishingly beautiful and brainy debut . . . [a] stunning novel."--O: The Oprah Magazine

"In Jennifer duBois' gorgeous novel,** A Partial History of Lost Causes, the personal, theoretical, and political are braided together into a seamless whole. . . . Moving yet startlingly funny--full of bravado, insight, and clarity. A Partial History of Lost Causes **is a thrilling debut by a young writer who evidently shares the uncanny brilliance of her protagonists."--**Elle

In Jennifer duBois's mesmerizing and exquisitely rendered debut novel, a long-lost letter links two disparate characters, each searching for meaning against seemingly insurmountable odds.

In St. Petersburg, Russia, world chess champion Aleksandr Bezetov begins a quixotic quest. With his renowned Cold War--era tournaments behind him, Aleksandr has turned to politics, launching a dissident presidential campaign against...


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