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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.
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.
| ISBN-13 | 9782226115300 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 2226115307 |
| Weight | 0.88 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.55 x 1.22 x 7.52 In |
| List Price | $65.95 |
| Format | Paperback |
|---|---|
| Language | French |
| Pages | 368 pages |
| Publisher | Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli |
| Published On | 2000-04-01 |
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Book. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. 362 pp. Clean, fresh copy and dj with very light s...
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