false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171237444m/91886.jpg 91886 22 The author of the international bestseller <b>Silk</b> 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&#8212;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 . <br><br>Theirs is a relationship of stories and of stories within stories: of Gould&#8217;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, <b>City</b> is irresistible. 6712990 1999 City total:181|5:57|4:45|3:52|2:18|1:9| 181 666 254 20 4 2 false false Mon Sep 03 05:04:21 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 07 05:33:15 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 true false Mon Mar 31 21:21:21 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 31 20:42:21 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 31 21:19:20 -0700 2008
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I REALLY wanted to like it. The idea of the book is great, and I think the overarching story is the best part of the book by far. For me, the stories within the story weren't nearly as good. They felt like a slow distraction, and they were just kind o...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Jan 03 10:15:54 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 10:17:03 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 25 19:17:47 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 22 14:43:40 -0700 2007 Baricco can make anything, anything into gorgeousness.

City is a brilliant amalgam of stories, including a comic book, a boxing match, lectures by myriad professors on things like curves in nature or Monet's Waterlillies or intellec...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Aug 12 07:29:32 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 01:41:04 -0700 2009

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Non è il migliore di Baricco, ma ci sono sempre i suoi bellissimi "racconti nel racconto" che a me fanno impazzire.]]> 5 0 false false Sun Oct 18 08:54:22 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 09:20:35 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Aug 12 12:50:52 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 12:51:50 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Dec 08 08:41:06 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 08 08:46:02 -0800 2007 more...]]> 1 0 false false Thu Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 23:55:03 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 10:52:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Apr 22 06:51:23 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 23 07:51:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Jun 09 17:03:59 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 09 17:19:52 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 true false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 15:23:18 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 09 09:34:13 -0700 2008 1 0 false false Sun Apr 29 10:12:40 -0700 2007 Sun Apr 29 10:12:46 -0700 2007 ]]> 1 0 false false Thu Mar 27 15:29:03 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 03 11:08:13 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 27 15:28:34 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Aug 01 22:43:11 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 01 22:44:29 -0700 2007 1 0 false false Sat Dec 08 13:10:45 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 08 13:17:46 -0800 2007 4 0 false false Tue Oct 28 02:26:39 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 28 02:27:44 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Tue Jun 24 09:27:02 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 01 15:43:40 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 24 09:27:02 -0700 2008 1 0 false false Sun Sep 02 16:36:27 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 02 16:36:50 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=91886