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Three friends in a small Egyptian city celebrate idleness, elegance, and joie de vivre.

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"A legend…His caustic satire burned like the desert sun, undermining all forms of authority. Cossery despised materialism and eschewed the rat race... The overt message [is] that paradise is not lost, but most of us are too busy to bask in the Edenic simplicity of the world." -- The Guardian
"I never see anything anywhere like it. All of Cossery’s books have a rare, exotic, haunting, unique flavor." -- Henry Miller
"Above all Cossery, one of the last and quirkiest links to the postwar glory days of St. Germain-de-Pres, elevated idleness to an art form." -- The Times [London]

A Splendid Conspiracy

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    A Paperback / softback by Albert Cossery, Alyson Waters

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      Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
      Publication Date: 14/05/2010
      ISBN13: 9780811217798, 978-0811217798
      ISBN10: 0811217795

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Three friends in a small Egyptian city celebrate idleness, elegance, and joie de vivre.

      Trade Review
      "A legend…His caustic satire burned like the desert sun, undermining all forms of authority. Cossery despised materialism and eschewed the rat race... The overt message [is] that paradise is not lost, but most of us are too busy to bask in the Edenic simplicity of the world." -- The Guardian
      "I never see anything anywhere like it. All of Cossery’s books have a rare, exotic, haunting, unique flavor." -- Henry Miller
      "Above all Cossery, one of the last and quirkiest links to the postwar glory days of St. Germain-de-Pres, elevated idleness to an art form." -- The Times [London]

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