The Ghost in the Eiffel Tower
By (author) Olivier Bleys Translated by J.A. Underwood
Paperback (Published)
(November 2004)
ISBN: 9780714530949
5 x 8.03 inches
Price: $15.95
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Paris 1888. Armand and Odilon are young apprentice draughtsmen in the offices of Gustave Eiffel, working on what will be the engineer’s greatest invention and the city’s most famous landmark. The Eiffel Tower is the symbol of a new age, but in the exotic gas-lit streets of Paris, strange beliefs, dark desires and mysterious forces are loose. Soon Armand and Odilon find themselves involved with a spiritualist society who hold seances in the Paris Morgue, a card-reading clairvoyant, a female ventriloquist with a shady secret and a spirited young actress. Behind them all are the scheming machinations of Gordon Hole, an ambitious American architect who has vowed to destroy the Eiffel Tower before it can even be completed.
Olivier Bleys is the author of 36 books so far : novels, essays and travel stories.
He was born in Lyon in 1970. He holds master’s degrees in modern literature, computer graphics and cultural project management. At the age of twenty-two he won the young novelist’s prize for The Island. Three years later his second book, The Prince of the Fork, received a national prize. His third novel, Pastel, was translated into several foreign languages and rewarded by the French Academy.
Besides writing novels and travel diaries, Olivier Bleys designs and lectures on multimedia, manages cultural projects and organises exhibitions. He has a wide range of interests spanning medieval history, music and science-fiction and walking. He lives in Paris.
- By (author) Olivier Bleys
- Translated by J.A. Underwood
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