| The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith Contributor(s): Carey, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679760369 ISBN-13: 9780679760368 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1996 Annotation: The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and The Tax Inspector now gives readers a hero, the malformed but ferociously wilful Tristan Smith, who becomes the object of the world's byzantine political intrigues, even as he attains stardom in a bizarre Sirkus that is part passion play and part Mortal Kombat. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 94078479 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 5.3" W x 8.08" (0.77 lbs) 432 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From a writer whom Thomas Keneally calls one of the great figures on the cusp of the millennium comes a novel that conjures an entire world that suggests our own, but tilted on its axis--a world whose most powerful country, Voorstand, dominates its neighbors with ruthless espionage and its mesmerizing but soul-destroying Sirkus. Into that world comes Tristan Smith, a malformed, heroically willful, and unforgivingly observant child. Tristan's life includes adventure and loss, political intrigue, and a bizarre stardom in the Voorstand Sirkus, where animals talk and human performers die real deaths. The result is a visionary picaresque, staggering in its inventions, spellbinding in its suspense, and unabashedly moving. |