FUN: Spies, Puzzle Solvers and a Century of Crosswords

di Paolo Bacilieri (Autore)

SelfMadeHero, 2017

In December 1913, the New York World newspaper published the first crossword in history. It appeared in their Sunday supplement, “Fun.” A century later, 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?

• Autore: Paolo Bacilieri
• Editore: SelfMadeHero
• Anno: 2017
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 296 p.
• Dimensioni: 246 x 178 mm
• Peso: 900 gr.
• EAN: 9781910593257

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