Foucault's Pendulum (Trade)

As brilliant and quirky as THE NAME OF THE ROSE as mischievous and wide-raning....A virtuoso performance.<BR>THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE<BR>Three clever book editors inspired by an extraordinary fable they heard years befoe decide to have a little fun. Randomly feeding esoteric bits of knowledge into an incredible computer capable of inventing connections between all their entires they think they are creating a long lazy game--until the game starts taking over....<BR>Here is an incredible journey of thought and history memory and fantasy a tour de force as enthralling as anything Umberto Eco--or indeed anyone--has ever devised.