Acts of Theft

by Arthur Allen Cohen

Book Overview

"An astonishing, soaring and seizing novel that means no less than to explain human culture. A detective story with a real detective and a real thief--and yet all the while it is the mind that is being plundered of its own frights."--Cynthia Ozick

" Acts of Theft] ranges from the lost world of the Austrian aristocracy . . . to a thick-walled hacienda in the jungles of Mexico in the 1950s. . . . Cohen has resurrected the special man,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226112500
• ISBN13: 9780226112503
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"