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- ISBN 9781910593257
- Weight: 900g
- Dimensions: 178 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 20 Apr 2017
- Publisher: SelfMadeHero
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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?
