β Alessandro Baricco
π Fiction
π
2017
π Hoffmann und Campe
π German
β 181 KB
β¦ LIBER β¦
City
β Scribed by Alessandro Baricco
- Publisher
- Vintage eBooks
- Year
- 2009;2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 165 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ 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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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