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by Tim Powers

381 pages · 1996

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A novel on ghost sniffers in Los Angeles who inhale famous ghosts to acquire their intelligence. By chance a boy called Kootie Parganas sniffs a ghost trapped in a bottle. It's the ghost of Thomas Edison, the greatest inventor of all time with one thousand patents in everything from electricity to motion pictures. But what can be inhaled can be exhaled and Kootie becomes the object of a hunt by men after his intelligence

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