TY  - BOOK
AU  - Saramago,José
AU  - Pontiero,Giovanni
TI  - The history of the siege of Lisbon
SN  - 0156006243 (pbk.)
AV  - PQ9281.A66 H5713 1998
U1  - 869.3/42 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - San Diego
PB  - Harcourt Brace
KW  - Proofreading
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Sieges
KW  - Lisbon (Portugal)
KW  - History
KW  - Siege, 1147
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Parables
N1  - Originally pub. as hbk.: c1996
N2  - A proofreader in a publishing house changes a word in a manuscript to make a history book read that a 12th Century battle was strictly a Portuguese victory, rather than a joint victory with the Crusaders. Instead of being fired the proofreader is commissioned to develop the idea into a novel. A study in historical revisionism
ER  -