David Plante

Bookworm

David Plante

Clean

Published on Jan 10, 2008, 2:30:00 PM
Total time: 00:28:30

Episode Description

ABC (Pantheon)
In this novel, a series of unlinked personal, familial and global catastrophes leads unrelated victims to search for order. Mysteriously, the "order" they discover is alphabetical order. So many cultures begin their alphabets with ABC. Why? What revelation is concealed in the alphabet's code?

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Intellectual, accessible, and provocative literary conversations.