City (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375725487)

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.

Author: Alessandro Baricco
ISBN-10: 0375725482
ISBN-13: 9780375725487
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 06/17/2003
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.26w x 0.77d