Dream of Scipio
By Iain Pears
(Riverhead Trade, Paperback, 9781573229869, 416pp.)
Publication Date: June 2003
Categories: Historical - General
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In The Dream of Scipio, the acclaimed author of An Instance of the Fingerpost intertwines three intellectual mysteries, three love stories-and three of the darkest moments in human history. United by a classical text called "The Dream of Scipio," three men struggle to find refuge from the madness that surrounds them...in the final days of the Roman Empire, in the grim years of the Black Death, and in the direst hours of World War II.
Iain Pears was born in 1955. Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, he has worked as a journalist, an art historian, and a television consultant in England, France, Italy, and the United States. He is the author of seven highly praised detective novels, a book of art history, and countless articles on artistic, financial, and historical subjects, as well as the international bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost.
An entirely satisfying symphony of story and substance...ingeniously imagined. (Washington Post) Pears leaves us with a dream, not only of destruction, but of immense and unexpected heroism. (Boston Globe) [An] ambitious, heartfelt, and thought-provoking book, one that should find a home in the heart of every thinking reader. (Portland Oregonian) This is a dream that will stay with the reader for a long, long time. (Montreal Gazette) A novel for our time about all time. Wildly entertaining. (The Christian Science Monitor) Complex, surprising and thought-provoking, a dream of a novel in more senses than one. (Wall Street Journal)
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