City
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- Synopsis
- The author of the international bestseller Silk now delivers a ravishing and wildly inventive novel about friendship, genius and its discontents, and the redemptive power of narrative. Somewhere in America lives a brilliant boy named Gould, an intellectual guided missile aimed at the Nobel Prize. His only companions are an imaginary giant and an imaginary mute. Improbably-and yet with impeccable logic--he falls into the care of Shatzy Shell, a young woman whose life up till that point has been equally devoid of human connection . Theirs is a relationship of stories and of stories within stories: of Gould's evolving saga of an underdog boxer and the violent Western that Shatzy has been dictating into a tape recorder since the age of six. Out of these stories, Alessandro Baricco creates a masterpiece of metaphysical pulp fiction that recalls both Scheherazade and Italo Calvino. By turns exhilarating and deeply moving, City is irresistible.
- Copyright:
- 2001
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 328 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780375411427
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 06/02/05
- Copyrighted By:
- Alessandro Baricco
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Donna Smith
- Proofread By:
- Holly Ryan
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.