Paul Collins

The Trouble with Tom (eBook, ePUB)

The Strange Afterlife and Times of Thomas Paine

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

?[A] quixotic, mischievous and often hilarious work?Part travelogue, part memoir and part historical mystery, this book reads like a wry, witty novel and offers a delicious twist at the end. "Publishers Weekly

"Paul Collins takes us on a strange odyssey down the forgotten roads of history as he hunts for the bones of Tom Paine?exhumed and then lost, and now scattered around the globe. Crossing the paths of everyone from Walt Whitman and Charles Darwin to sex reformers and feral monkeys, this colorful search for a founding father's body simultaneously excavates the very soul of democracy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781596917484
• Artikelnr.: 56879423

Autorenporträt

Paul Collins is the author of Sixpence House and Not Even Wrong: A Father's Journey into the Lost History of Autism. He edits the Collins Library for McSweeney's Books, and his work has appeared in New Scientist, the Village Voice, and Business 2.0.