| All about H. Hatterr Contributor(s): Desani, G. V. (Author), Burgess, Anthony (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1590172426 ISBN-13: 9781590172421 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2007 Annotation: Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, "All About H. Hatterr" is one of the most perfectly eccentric and strangely absorbing works modern English has produced. H. Hatterr is the son of a European merchant officer and a lady from Penang who has been raised and educated in missionary schools in Calcutta. His story is of his search for enlightenment as, in the course of visiting seven Oriental cities, he consults with seven sages, each of whom specializes in a different aspect of "Living." Each teacher delivers himself of a great "Generality," each great Generality launches a new great "Adventure," from each of which Hatter escapes not so much greatly edified as by the skin of his teeth. The book is a comic extravaganza, but as Anthony Burgess writes in his introduction, "it is the language that makes the book. . . . It is not pure English; it is like Shakespeare, Joyce, and Kipling, gloriously impure." |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Cultural Heritage - Fiction | Satire |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2007027990 |
| Series: New York Review Books Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.1" W x 7.98" (0.70 lbs) 320 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, All About H. Hatterr is one of the most perfectly eccentric and strangely absorbing works modern English has produced. H. Hatterr is the son of a European merchant officer and a lady from Penang who has been raised and educated in missionary schools in Calcutta. His story is of his search for enlightenment as, in the course of visiting seven Oriental cities, he consults with seven sages, each of whom specializes in a different aspect of "Living." Each teacher delivers himself of a great "Generality," each great Generality launches a new great "Adventure," from each of which Hatter escapes not so much greatly edified as by the skin of his teeth. The book is a comic extravaganza, but as Anthony Burgess writes in his introduction, "it is the language that makes the book. . . . It is not pure English; it is like Shakespeare, Joyce, and Kipling, gloriously impure." |