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2011., Adult, Thomas Allen Publishers Call No: Bio B622b Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2010., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: Fic McC Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Opening in England at the turn of the twentieth century, C is the story of a boy named Serge Carrefax, whose father spends his time experimenting with wireless communication while running a school for deaf children. Serge grows up amid the noise and silence with his brilliant but troubled older sister, Sophie: an intense sibling relationship that stays with him as he heads off into an equally troubled larger world. After a fling with a nurse at a Bohemian spa, Serge serves in World War I as a radio operator for reconnaissance planes. When his plane is shot down, Serge is taken to a German prison camp, from which he escapes. Back in London, he<U+2019>s recruited for a mission to Cairo on behalf of the shadowy Empire Wireless Chain. All of which eventually carries Serge to a fitful--and perhaps fateful--climax at the bottom of an Egyptian tomb . . ."--Publisher.
