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Author / Creator:	Bacilieri, Paolo, 1965- author, illustrator.
Edition:	English edition.
Imprint:	London : SelfMadeHero, 2017. ©2016
Description:	294 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Crossword puzzles -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc. Crossword puzzles. Fiction. Graphic novels. Comics (Graphic works) Comic books, strips, etc. Creative nonfiction. Graphic novels. Nonfiction comics.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11559960

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Other authors / contributors:	Richards, Jamie, translator.
ISBN:	9781910593257 1910593257
Notes:	Translated from the Italian. Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	In December 1913, the New York World newspaper published the first crossword in history. It appeared in their Sunday supplement, "Fun". A century on, this absorbing puzzle continues to attract (and infuriate) millions of devotees every day. But the world's most popular - and seemingly mundane - pastime has a surprising history, filled with intrigue and adventure. Paolo Bacilieri's Fun transports us from turn-of-the-century New York to present day Milan, taking in stories of ingenious puzzle makers, ardent solvers and intellectual luminaries. Part detective story, part docudrama, and interlaced with a fiction of Bacilieri's own imagining, Fun questions the crossword's "harmless" status. Sure, it's fun - but could it also be a form of resistance, of cryptic communication, of espionage?

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Call Number:	PN6767.B23 F86 2017
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