Tampa, Florida, 1898: a frontier where the old world meets the new. Dominating the town is the new Tampa Bay Hotel, with its tangle of Moorish minarets, cupolas and arches; its Byzantine domes and thirteen crescent moons; its electric lighting designed by Edison. This fairy-tale castle anchored by the water's edge is a winter magnet for bankers and industrialists, stockbrokers and shipping merchants, attorneys and architects and celebrities who come from as far away as Europe. But the hotel has one permanent resident, the ...
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Tampa, Florida, 1898: a frontier where the old world meets the new. Dominating the town is the new Tampa Bay Hotel, with its tangle of Moorish minarets, cupolas and arches; its Byzantine domes and thirteen crescent moons; its electric lighting designed by Edison. This fairy-tale castle anchored by the water's edge is a winter magnet for bankers and industrialists, stockbrokers and shipping merchants, attorneys and architects and celebrities who come from as far away as Europe. But the hotel has one permanent resident, the enigmatic and exotic Monsieur Goulet III, amateur phrenologist and wig-maker to the plain and the glamorous alike - to any resident of Tampa whose desire for the transformations he creates is matched by pockets deep enough to meet his price. As the winter of 1898 nears its end, Goulet becomes entranced by the spectacular silver-blonde hair of a beautiful young widow, Marion Unger, and determines that the transformation it inspires him to create will be his masterpiece. But the raw material he needs for its completion is hard to come by, and so he drives his resourceful night-scavenger - a teenage cigar-maker who has fled the war in Cuba - to increasingly extreme efforts. As the fates of the widow, the wigmaker and the scavenger become ever more tightly entwined, Goulet's true nature, hitherto cleverly and obsessively disguised, begins to show itself, until it becomes clear that he will allow nothing to impede the progress of his ultimate transformation.
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Add this copy of The Transformation to cart. $29.52, like new condition, Sold by Alpha 2 Omega Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Southampton, HANTS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2005 by Picador.
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As new in Fine jacket. Mint condition. Picador, 2005. First UK edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2). Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine) with Dj(some nicks, crease and scratch on the edges of the Dj cover), both in mint condition. The book is new with a small ink mark and nick on the outer edge of the pages, light shelf wear on the Dj cover.306pp. Price un-clipped.
Add this copy of The Transformation to cart. $63.97, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Picador.
