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Cloudy, with a chance of getting killed; FICTION: A man with the world's largest collection of books on clouds seeks to fill a missing hole in his library while struggling with a pain-shrouded past.(ENTERTAINMENT)

Byline: Brigitte Frase

"I've looked at clouds from both sides now ... "

- Joni Mitchell

Special to the Star Tribune

The Theory of Clouds" belongs to that curious subset of novels in which ideas and intellectual work are foregrounded and matter almost as much as human beings. Stephane Audeguy's wise and oddly tender book features the science of clouds and the early period of meteorology, which began in 1821 with Luke Howard, the first man to give clouds a nomenclature (cirrus, cumulus, etc.) that made possible increasingly accurate weather predictions. This is a novel of hopeful beginnings and disillusioned ends.

Clouds, both real and metaphorical, benign ...

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