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    LITERATURE

    Jedediah Berry - The Manual of Detection

    Presented by M Is For Mystery Bookstore at Belmont Library

    February 13, 2010

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    Jedediah Berry - The Manual of Detection
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    M is for Mystery sponsors this event and will be on hand with books for purchase. Berry's debut is a boldly inventive deconstruction of Cartesian metaphysics, the criminal-justice system and the well-oiled detective story. When opened, this first novel reads like something lifted from Ray Bradbury's Dark Carnival and dropped into a Kafka setting. In an effort to locate a missing detective, an agency clerk investigates that detective's most...

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    M is for Mystery sponsors this event and will be on hand with books for purchase. Berry's debut is a boldly inventive deconstruction of Cartesian metaphysics, the criminal-justice system and the well-oiled detective story. When opened, this first novel reads like something lifted from Ray Bradbury's Dark Carnival and dropped into a Kafka setting. In an effort to locate a missing detective, an agency clerk investigates that detective's most renowned cases. Is he following the right clues? Is he trusting the right people? Merging a comedic yet dark fantasy world with the hard-boiled school of detection, this clever debut novel both amuses and confuses. The Manual of Detection weaves the kind of mannered fantasy that might result if Wes Anderson were to adapt Kafka.


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    Belmont Library

    1110 Alameda de las Pulgas
    Belmont, CA 94002

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    Tickets:
    Free

    Times:
    1:30pm

    Phone: 650-591-8286

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    There is free parking at the library. Some free street parking is also available.


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