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Автор: Steven Hall
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isbn: 9780802149220
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      Copyright © 2021 by Steven Hall

      Jacket design by Rafaela Romaya

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      First published in Great Britain in 2021 by Canongate Books Ltd

       Printed in the United States of America

      First Grove Atlantic hardcover editon: April 2021

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      ISBN 978-0-8021-4920-6

      eISBN 978-0-8021-4922-0

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       For Mighty A, and my Second Stanley

       Contents

       PART I I Don’t Believe in God, but I Miss Him

       1 Roses

       2 Thirty Years Later

       3 Why Knocks An Angel?

       4 Analogue

       5 Imogen in Green

       6 Only Entropy Comes Easy

       7 The Letter

       8 The Mary Magdalene Treatment

       9 The Leaves of Autumn

       10 Another Name for God

       11 The Church

       PART II Gutenberg and Faust

       12 Andrew Black

       13 Cupid’s Engine

       14 Annotated Edition

       15 Mighty A, Greedy C and Missing Q

       PART III The Ox and the Angel

       16 Thanks for Asking

       17 Imogen in Red and Gold

       18 About Five Hours Later . . .

       19 And a Monster Made of Eyes

       20 Signs and Wonders

       21 In Layman’s Terms

       22 Two Tiny Moons

       23 Under the Police Station

       24 The Things that Andrew Black Reported to Sergeant Claybourn

       25 Acts of Creation

       26 Sophie Almonds

       27 Twenty Minutes Later . . .

       28 Numbers

       29 Imogen Naked

       30 Entropy Tends to a Maximum

       PART IV The Gospel of Ink and Autumn

       31 The Hero with a Thousand Faces

       32 The Revelation of Thomas

       33 A Palace in the Hereafter

       34 Combining the Letters by Which the Heavens and Earth Were Created

       Acknowledgements