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Part satire, part allegory, part hoax, The Confidence-Man is a slippery metaphysical comedy set on April Fool's Day aboard the Mississippi steamer Fidele. Through the conversations of his confidence men Melville explores America and American values, plays with theories of trust and finds form for the idea that, if our beliefs are shifting and uncertain, we at least have fiction. 351 pages. Softcover.
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