The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:7th Nov '13
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Doomed to become the 'sport of fortune' by an interruption at the crucial moment of conception, Tristram Shandy's life lurches from one mishap to another: his nose crushed by the doctor's forceps during birth, christened with the wrong name, an unfortunate incident involving a slamming sash window.
Sterne's utterly original novel - the meandering, maddening 'autobiography' of one of literature's oldest comic characters.
Doomed to become the ‘sport of fortune’ by an interruption at the crucial moment of conception, Tristram Shandy’s life lurches from one mishap to another: his nose crushed by the doctor’s forceps during birth, christened with the wrong name, an unfortunate incident involving a slamming sash window… Discover the anti-autobiography of the hilarious Tristram Shandy.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY TOM MCCARTHY
‘Tristram Shandy is one of the funniest novels in the English language. It's also one of the first great experimental literary works’ Independent
Tristram Shandy is one of the funniest novels in the English language. It's also one of the first great experimental literary works * Independent *
A mad, recursive, literary joke * Daily Telegraph *
An extraordinary comic tour de force * Guardian *
The ultimate novel about writing a novel * Sunday Telegraph *
An amazing book, seeming like a modern experimental novel but written in the 18th century by an Anglican clergyman. You can dip in and out of it with constant pleasure. -- Bamber Gasgoigne * Daily Express *
Has inspired and provoked writers as various as Dickens, Joyce and Salman Rushdie * Observer *
Tristram Shandy’s open, digressive form offers both an alternative to the inevitable reductions of plot and a foil to the tyranny of the will to system. * New Statesman *
ISBN: 9780099519157
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 26mm
Weight: 426g
624 pages