The Last Samurai
Helen Dewitt
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Description for The Last Samurai
Paperback. Num Pages: 576 pages. Dimension: 202 x 133. Weight in Grams: 514.
Helen DeWitt’s 2000 debut, The Last Samurai, was “destined to become a cult classic” (Miramax). The enterprising publisher sold the rights in twenty countries, so “Why not just, ‘destined to become a classic?’” (Garth Risk Hallberg) And why must cultists tell the uninitiated it has nothing to do with Tom Cruise?
Sibylla, an American-at-Oxford turned loose on London, finds herself trapped as a single mother after a misguided one-night stand. High-minded principles of child-rearing work disastrously well. J. S. Mill (taught Greek at three) and Yo Yo Ma (Bach at two) claimed the methods would work with any child; when ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Condition
New
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780811225502
SKU
V9780811225502
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About Helen Dewitt
Helen DeWitt was born in a suburb of Washington, DC. Daughter of American diplomats, she grew up mainly in Latin America, living in Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, and Ecuador. She went to Oxford to study classics for a BA and D.Phil. She left academia to try to write a novel, moving eventually to London and acquiring UK citizenship. She had some ... Read more
Reviews for The Last Samurai
"[...] a Molotov cocktail of a book, an incendiary experience for readers that breaks through the mundanity of life, work, and love to achieve greatness."
Off the Shelf "A triumph—a genuinely new story, a genuinely new form."
A. S. Byatt - The New Yorker "The Last Samurai is an original work of brilliance about, in part, the limits ... Read more
Off the Shelf "A triumph—a genuinely new story, a genuinely new form."
A. S. Byatt - The New Yorker "The Last Samurai is an original work of brilliance about, in part, the limits ... Read more