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Pentimento

By Klaus Albrecht
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By Klaus Albrecht
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The year is 1798. For childish reasons, the last king of France has outlawed hot air balloons, sentencing the middle-aged Claude-Philippe Framboise, once a celebrated master balloonist extraordinaire, to a life of poverty. As an outbreak of syphilis incinerates his sanity, Framboise's true nature is revealed, and in the cellar of his landlady's house, he concocts a monstrous scheme usurping all other schemes observable from the armchair of history in its propensity for senseless brutality. ...

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