β Bruce Chatwin
π Fiction
π
2016
π Open Road Integrated Media
π English
β 520 KB
π 1 views
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Fool on the Hill
β Scribed by Matt Ruff
- Publisher
- Grove/Atlantic, Inc.;Grove Pr
- Year
- 2016;2008
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 397 KB
- Edition
- [Nachdr.]
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
It is a literary event when a genuinely new fictional voice comes along. When that voice achieves its newness not through a certain formal facility but through the freshness of its vision, there is truly something to celebrate. Matt Ruff was only twenty-two when Fool on the Hill was first published, but with his novel he gave us a story that won over readers of every persuasion. Not your usual first effort, Fool on the Hill is a full-blown epic of life and death, good and evil, magic and love.
Think of the imaginative daring of Mark Helprinβs Winterβs Tale. The zany popism of Tom Robbinsβs Another Roadside Attraction. The gnomish fantasies of J.R. Tolkien. Think of these and you begin to get some idea of one of the most remarkable first novels to come along in years.
In the world of Fool on the Hill dogs and cats can talk, a subculture of sprites lives in the shadows and underfoot (if youβre the sensitive type, or drunk enough, you might see...
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