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THE MUSEUM OF EXTRAORDINARY THINGS
Alice Hoffman
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THE MUSEUM OF EXTRAORDINARY THINGS

by Alice Hoffman

Scribner · 2014

Peak rank

#14

Weeks on list

1

Debuted

March 2014

Chart History

#1510152014

1 week on the Hardcover Fiction list, peaking at #14

From the bestselling author of The Dovekeeperscomes a spectacularly imaginative and moving new novel in the vein of The Night Circusthat has been acclaimed by Jodi Picoult as 'truly stunning: part love story, part mystery, part history, and all beauy'. New York City, 1911. Meet Coralie Sardie, circus girl, web-fingered mermaid, shy only daughter of Professor Sardie and raised in the bizarre surroundings of his Museum of Extraordinary Things. And meet Eddie Cohen, a handsome young immigrant who has run away from his painful past and his Orthodox family to become a photographer, documenting life on the teeming city streets. One night by the freezing waters of the Hudson River, Coralie stumbles across Eddie, who has become enmeshed in the case of a missing girl, and the fates of these two hopeful outcasts collide as they search for truth, beauty, love and freedom in tumultuous times.

All Appearances

14↑1March 16, 2014wk 2

Details

ISBN-13
9781471112164
ISBN-10
1471112160
Published
2014
Pages
455
Publisher
Scribner
Categories
Fiction

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