The theory of clouds
By: Stephane Audeguy ; translated from the French by Timothy Bent
Contributors: Bent, Timothy
Edition: 1st Harvest ed.
Published: 2008
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780156034814
Subjects: Clouds; Collectors and collecting; Fiction
Work titles: Theorie des nuages
Description: A kira Kumo, miraculous survivor of Hiroshima, reinvented himself as someone twenty years younger. Now an eccentric couturier and collector of all literature having to do with clouds and meteorology, he hires Virginie, a young librarian, to catalog his library. While she works, he tells her stories of those who have devoted their lives to clouds: the Quaker Luke Howard, contemporary of Napoleon and Goethe, who first classified clouds; the painter Carmichael (based on John Constable), who spent a year painting clouds; and the mysterious Abercrombie, a photographer who cataloged clouds around the world.
Notes: Translated from the French.
Table of contents: title: The study of the skies; title: Toward other latitudes; title: The Abercrombie protocol.