The Confidence-Man
by Herman Melville
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Fiction.
In Herman Melville?s The ConfidenceMan: His Masquerade, a group of steamboat passengers paddle to New Orleans on April Fool?s Day. As the Mississippi carries them down river, everyone is selling something: quack remedies; stock in a mining company about to fail; a fraudulent charity for widows and orphans. Set on the eve of the Civil War, as the f...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Fiction.
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“Love this book. And it?s insanely postmodern, almost feels like something Pynchon could have written. | Love this book. And it’s insanely postmodern, almost feels like something Pynchon could have written.”
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