The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (King Penguin)

Paperback, 224 pages

Published March 4, 1986 by Penguin (Non-Classics).

ISBN:
978-0-14-005651-8
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OCLC Number:
9831886

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Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to him in his dreams. Meeting on his adventures a host of cannibals, centaurs and acrobats, Desiderio must battle against unreality and the warping of time and space to be with her, as the Doctor reduces Desiderio's city to a chaotic state of emergency - one ridden with madness, crime and sexual excess. A satirical tale of magic and sex, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman is a dazzling quest for truth, love and identity.

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  • Modern fiction
  • Fiction / General