false 40442708 1589707 513275 0940322218 9780940322219 46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256023944m/513275.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256023944s/513275.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/513275.Jakob_von_Gunten 4.16 224 Jakob von Gunten is widely recognized as the finest. The book is a young man's inquisitive and irreverent account of life in what turns out to be the most uncanny of schools. It is the work of an outsider artist, a writer of uncompromising originality and disconcerting humor, whose beautiful sentences have the simplicity and strangeness of a painting by Henri Rousseau.]]> 16073 4.24 772 142 1970 0 0 false Fri Dec 19 03:40:33 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 03:47:18 -0800 2008