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The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore
Benjamin Hale
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Description for The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore
Paperback. A star is born: with this brilliant and blazing novel, Benjamin Hale has produced the most unforgettable and original debut since Everything is Illuminated. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 44. Weight in Grams: 548. 592 pages. A star is born: with this brilliant and blazing novel, Benjamin Hale has produced the most unforgettable and original debut since Everything is Illuminated. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 200 x 130 x 44. Weight: 548.
'A brave and visionary work of genius . . . touching and quirky... brash, glittering, engaging... The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore is a major accomplishment' - San Francisco Chronicle
Bruno Littlemore; linguist, artist, philosopher. A life defined by a soaring mind, yet bound by a restrictive body. Born in down-town Chicago, Bruno's precocity pulls him from an unremarkable childhood, and under the tuition of Lydia, his intellect dazzles a watching world. But when falls in love with his mentor, the world turns on them with outrage: Bruno is striving to be something he is not, and denying everything that ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Number of pages
592
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
592
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848875340
SKU
V9781848875340
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About Benjamin Hale
Benjamin Hale is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, where he received a Provost's Fellowship to complete his novel, which also went on to win a Michener-Copernicus Award. He has been a night shift baker, a security guard, a trompe l'oeil painter, a pizza deliverer, a cartoonist, an illustrator and a technical writer. He grew up in Colorado and ... Read more
Reviews for The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore
'The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore is an enormous, glorious rattlebag of a book. Benjamin Hale's extremely loud debut has echoes of the acerbic musings of Humbert Humbert and the high-pitched shrieking of Oskar Matzerath. Hale's narrator, Bruno Littlemore, is a yelping, bouncing, pleading, longing, lost, loony, bleeding, pleading, laughing, beseeching wonder. The book is of such enormous originality and vitality; ... Read more