The Archivist

Martha Cooley

first published 1998 Abacus, 1998 paperback 328 pages

A young woman's impassioned pursuit of a sealed cache of T. S. Eliot's letters lies at the heart of this emotionally charged novel -- a story of marriage and madness, of faith and desire, of jazz-age New York and Europe in the shadow of the Holocaust. The Archivist was a word-of-mouth bestseller and one of the most jubilantly acclaimed first novels of recent years.

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The Archivist ebook · 2008 · Little, Brown and Company · 9780316049498
The Archivist paperback · 1999 · Back Bay Books · 336 pages · 9780316158466
The Archivist paperback · 1999 · Abacus · 328 pages · 9780349109749
The archivist paperback · 1998 · Abacus · 328 pages
The archivist edition · 1998 · Little, Brown · 328 pages
The Archivist hardcover · 1998 · Little Brown & Co · 336 pages · 9780316642477

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