Ebook {Epub PDF} Gutenbergs Apprentice: A Novel by Alix Christie

Alix Christie not only tackled Gutenberg’s Apprentice as her debut novel but managed to garner starred reviews.” -- bltadwin.ru “In Christie’s stellar debut, we become observers to the birth of one of the greatest inventions of man - the printing press masterful a highly recommended novel.”/5().  · Read an excerpt of this book! Add to Wishlist. Gutenberg's Apprentice: A Novel by Alix Christie | Editorial Reviews. Paperback (Reprint) $ Hardcover. $ Paperback. $ NOOK Book. $ View All Available Formats Editions. Ship This Item — Qualifies for.  · The novel’s story begins with a frame narrative that follows the deaths of both Johanns: Gutenberg himself and Johann Fust, Gutenberg’s partner and financier and the foster father of Peter Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins.

Gutenberg's Apprentice is my favorite kind of historical novel, the kind that inspires me to stop every couple of chapters and ponder. Alix Christie's extraordinary book made me want to ponder the tremendous ruthlessness of History (capital H intended), how it takes no prisoners when its gears begin to churn out global change. The real hero of Gutenberg's Apprentice is the press itself, this horrifying, beautiful machine capable of throwing out "a boundless net of shining letters" (). Near the middle of Christie's novel, Gutenberg and Fust hit on the momentous idea to print the Latin Bible in its entirety. Johann Gutenberg, a driven and caustic inventor, has devised a revolutionary—and to some, blasphemous—method of bookmaking: a machine he calls a printing press. Fust is financing Gutenberg's workshop and he orders Peter, his adopted son, to become Gutenberg's apprentice.

Read an excerpt of this book! Add to Wishlist. Gutenberg's Apprentice: A Novel by Alix Christie | Editorial Reviews. Paperback. Gutenberg’s Apprentice is my favorite kind of historical novel, the kind that inspires me to stop every couple of chapters and ponder. Alix Christie’s extraordinary book made me want to ponder the tremendous ruthlessness of History (capital H intended), how it takes no prisoners when its gears begin to churn out global change. Alix Christie. is an American writer and journalist. Her debut novel, Gutenberg's Apprentice, was published in For the past thirty years she has reported for newspapers in California and from Europe as a foreign correspondent, including the Washington Post, Guardian of London, the San Francisco Chronicle, and bltadwin.ru She currently reviews books and arts for The Economist.