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04298cam a2200397Ii 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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on1268469537 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OCoLC |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20211001112207.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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210920r20212021nyu ed 000 1 eng d |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
NjBwBT |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Transcribing agency |
JBL |
| Modifying agency |
JBL |
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OCLCQ |
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JAS |
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OCLCO |
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ZP7 |
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IUK |
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NFG |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781982189679 |
| Qualifying information |
(large print : hardcover) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1982189673 |
| Qualifying information |
(large print : hardcover) |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)1268469537 |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
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| Geographic area code |
a-tu--- |
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n-us-id |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
DOERR, |
| Item number |
ANTHONY |
| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
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| Holding library |
NFGA |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Doerr, Anthony, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1973- |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
5553 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Cloud cuckoo land : |
| Remainder of title |
a novel / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Anthony Doerr. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
Large print edition. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE STATEMENTS |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Scribner, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
2021. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
1136 pages (large print) ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content Type Term |
text |
| Content Type Code |
txt |
| Source |
rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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| Media Type Term |
unmediated |
| Media Type Code |
n |
| Source |
rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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| Carrier Type Term |
volume |
| Carrier Type Code |
nc |
| Source |
rdacarrier |
| 340 ## - PHYSICAL MEDIUM |
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large print |
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rdafs |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport, Idaho, today, and on a spaceship bound for a distant exoplanet decades from now, an ancient text provides solace and the most profound human connection to characters in peril. They all learn the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to the paradise of Cloud Cuckoo Land, a better world. Twelve-year-old Anna lives in a convent where women toil all day embroidering the robes of priests. She learns to read from an old Greek tutor she encounters on her errands in the city. In an abandoned priory, she finds a stash of old books. One is Aethon's story, which she reads to her sister as the walls of Constantinople are bombarded by armies of Saracens. Anna escapes, carrying only a small sack with bread, salt fish-and the book. Outside the city walls, Anna meets Omeir, a village boy who was conscripted, along with his beloved pair of oxen, to fight in the Sultan's conquest. His oxen have died; he has deserted. In Lakeport, Idaho, in 2020, Seymour, a young activist bent on saving the earth, sits in the public library with two homemade bombs in pressure cookers-another siege. Upstairs, eighty-five-year old Zeno, a former prisoner-of-war, and an amateur translator, rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon's adventures. On an interstellar ark called The Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault with sacks of Nourish powder and access to all the information in the world-or so she is told. She knows Aethon's story through her father, who has sequestered her to protect her. Konstance, encased on a spaceship decades from now, has never lived on our beloved Earth. Alone in a vault with sacks of Nourish powder and access to "all the information in the world," she knows Aethon's storythrough her father. Like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, Konstance, Anna, Omeir, Seymour, the young Zeno, the children in the library are dreamers and misfits on the cusp of adulthood in a world the grown-ups have broken. They through their own resilience and resourcefulness, and through story. Dedicated to "the librarians then, now, and in the years to come," Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land is about the power of story and the astonishing survival of the physical book when for thousands of years they were so rare and so feared, dying, as one character says, "in fires or floods or in the mouths of worms or at the whims of tyrants." It is a hauntingly beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardship-of the book, of the Earth, of the human heart"-- |
| Assigning source |
Provided by publisher. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Children |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
53304 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Books and reading |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
53459 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Space and time |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
50432 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Istanbul (Turkey) |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
Siege, 1453 |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Idaho |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
54258 |
| 655 #0 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
Large type books. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
848 |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
Historical fiction. |
| Source of term |
lcgft |
| 9 (RLIN) |
683 |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
Novels. |
| Source of term |
lcgft |
| 9 (RLIN) |
2408 |
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C0 |
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NFG |
