Quichotte [electronic resource]
Salman Rushdie2019
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In a tour-de-force that is a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and
family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie
has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age.
Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy
thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with
television, who falls in impossible love with the TV star Salman R. Together
with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across
America to prove worthy of her hand, gallantly braving the tragicomic perils of
an age where 'Anything-Can-Happen'. Meanwhile his creator, in a midlife crisis,
has equally urgent challenges of his own.
Just as Cervantes wrote Don Quixote to satirise the culture of his time, Rushdie
takes the reader on a wild ride through a country on the verge of moral and
spiritual collapse, with the kind of storytelling magic that is ...
Main title:
Quichotte [electronic resource] / Salman Rushdie
Author:
Salman Rushdie, Author
Imprint:
United Kingdom : Vintage Digital, 2019
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781473572072
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
434861
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |