Alva and Irva The Twins Who Saved a City

Name: Alva and Irva The Twins Who Saved a City
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ISBN: 9780151007820

ISBN-10: 0151007829

ISBN-13: 9780151007820

Edition: 2003

Authors: Edward Carey

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Alva and Irva Dapps are identical twin sisters who live in the city of Entralla. Like the Emerald City, Gondal, and Brobdingnag, only one guidebook to the place exists, and this novel is it. Alva is an explorer who longs to travel the world. Irva is a recluse for whom stepping outside the house is an ordeal. Yet the twins feel each other's emotions, think each other's thoughts, love and hate and suffer as one--they cannot survive without one another. And thereby hangs an inventive tale of creativity, obsession, and genius bred by necessity. Together, the twins build a model of the city on a scale that might accommodate the desires of both sisters and comes to serve Entralla in a way its…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 3/1/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Only thirty years old, Edward Carey has already achieved success as a playwright & as an illustrator.



Introduction



A New Statue for Our City



Dallia and Linas A Love Story in Our Central Post Office A Newly Married Couple Once Played Husband and Wife on Napoleon Street


Interlude 1: Coffee, Market Square



Alva and Irva An Over-Protective Mother Once Lived on Veber Street A Set of Female Twins Once Attended the School on Littsen Street A Love Story Written on the Ceiling of the Central Train Station


Interlude 2: Lunch, The International World Hotel



The World and Our City A Postwoman from Our City Once Travelled the World Without Ever Leaving Our City The City in a House The World Loses Its Head


Interlude 3: Supper: Tectonic House, Television Tower,the Grand Lubatkin



Entralla and Entralla Two Sisters of Pult Street Were Once Given the Keys to Our City A New Statue for Our City