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Masters of Atlantis (Paperback)

by Charles Portis (Author)
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Overlook Press; Reprint edition (1 Mar 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1585670219
  • ISBN-13: 978-1585670215
  • Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13.7 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 722,758 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Lamar Jimmersan, an American doughboy in 1917 France, learns that his life's purpose is to administer the brotherhood of the Gnomons, preservers of the wisdom of the lost city of Atlantis, and Gnomonism risesand eventually fades awayin America. Reprint.

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5.0 out of 5 stars "Compressed air is something else again. It packs a real punch.", 14 May 2008
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Charles Portis is a great writer and this is a truly excellent, hilarious and strangely poignant novel concerning the attempt by a group of oddballs to preserve the supposed wisdom of Atlantis. The man who passes on the ancient 'Codex Pappus' text to Lamar Jimmerson may be called Nick, Mike, Jack, Robert or none of the above and is almost certainly a conman, yet this does not stop Jimmerson from appointing himself Master of Gnomons and starting a bizarre cult.

The book's true joy, like with all of Portis's novels, lies in its inexhaustible humour sprinkled generously over every page. The dialogue is a series of masterpieces of crossed wires and purposes, going off on some of the funniest tangents committed to print. The characters are joyfully misguided but all propelled by the sincere belief in their courses of action. Point of view switches between them as the so-called Gnomon Society becomes more fractious and fractured by the day, and if you delight in eccentricities as much as Portis evidently does there is so much here to love.

I would recommend all of Portis's wonderful books; if this one sounds a little too wacky to start with, go for The Dog of the South.
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