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How to Travel With a Salmon & Other Essays

2000·248 pages·Nonfiction

Literary Fiction

essays short stories

Once a columnist for an Italian literary magazine, Eco now shares his acute and highly entertaining sense of the absurd in modern life in these essays about militarism, computerese, cowboy and Indian movies, art criticism, librarians, semiotics, and much more--including himself.

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How to Travel With a Salmon & Other Essays

Year

2000

Pages

248

Type

Nonfiction

Literary Fiction

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essays short stories

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Once a columnist for an Italian literary magazine, Eco now shares his acute and highly entertaining sense of the absurd in modern life in these essays about militarism, computerese, cowboy and Indian movies, art criticism, librarians, semiotics, and much more--including himself.

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