City
City by Alessandro Baricco, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on June 17, 2003, is a reprint edition comprising 336 pages in English. This novel explores themes of friendship, genius, and the transformative power of narrative through the lives of its unique characters. The story centers on Gould, a brilliant boy with aspirations for the Nobel Prize, and his unconventional companions, an imaginary giant and an imaginary mute. Their interactions unfold in a world shaped by storytelling, revealing the complexities of human connection.
Readers will find a rich tapestry of narratives as Gould and Shatzy Shell, a young woman seeking connection, share their stories. Gould’s journey includes an evolving saga of an underdog boxer, while Shatzy contributes her own tale of a violent Western that she has been crafting since childhood. Through these intertwined narratives, Baricco presents a work that blends elements of fiction and literary exploration, inviting readers to reflect on the nature of storytelling itself. City offers a distinctive reading experience that resonates with themes of creativity and the human condition.
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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.
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