{"product_id":"city-alessandro-baricco-9780375725487","title":"City","description":"The author of the international bestseller \u003cb\u003eSilk\u003c\/b\u003e 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 . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTheirs 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, \u003cb\u003eCity\u003c\/b\u003e is irresistible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alessandro Baricco\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0375725482\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375725487\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/17\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.06h x 5.26w x 0.77d","brand":"Alessandro Baricco","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45264985882879,"sku":"9780375725487","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4bd48d07-6265-48c7-8286-b67a572468b1.jpg?v=1713419823","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/city-alessandro-baricco-9780375725487","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}