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003			OCoLC
005			20180722225730.0
008			170607r20182017nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2017024820
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019			_a1022762964
020			_a9780385352994 _q(hardcover)
020			_a0385352999 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)987429650 _z(OCoLC)1022762964
042			_apcc
043			_ancho---
092			_aBeauman, _bNed
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aBeauman, Ned, _eauthor. _9192010
245	1	0	_aMadness is better than defeat / _cby Ned Beauman.
250			_aFirst United States edition.
263			_a1802
264		1	_aNew York : _bAlfred A. Knopf, _c2018.
264		4	_c©2017
300			_a399 pages ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"This is Borzoi Book."
500			_a"Originally published in Great Britain by Sceptre, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, a Hachette UK company, London, in 2017."
520			_a"A wild, astonishing novel (by arguably England's most accomplished young writer) about Manhattan and Hollywood in the 1930s, Mayan gods, and a CIA operation gone terribly wrong--and the Booker short-listed Ned Beauman's magnum opus thus far. In 1938, two rival expeditions descend on an ancient temple recently discovered in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a screwball comedy on location there, the other to disassemble the temple and ship it back to New York. A seemingly endless stalemate ensues, and twenty years later a rogue CIA agent sets out to exploit it for his own ends, unaware that the temple is a locus of conspiracies grander than anyone could ever have guessed. Shot through with insanity, conspiracy, ingenuity, and adventure, showcasing Beauman's anarchic humor, spectacular imagination, and riveting prose, Madness Is Better Than Defeat teases, absorbs, entertains, and dazzles in equal measure"-- _cProvided by publisher.
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bCentral Intelligence Agency _xOfficials and employees. _9349755
650		0	_aTemples _zHonduras _vFiction. _9349756
655		7	_aAction and adventure fiction. _2lcgft _97475
655		7	_aHumorous fiction. _2lcgft _9326
880		4	_6264-00 _c�2017
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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