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Book SynopsisSterne''s utterly original novel - the meandering, maddening ''autobiography'' of one of literature''s oldest comic characters.
Doomed to become the sport of fortune' by an interruption at the crucial moment of conception, Tristram Shandy's life lurches from one mishap to another: his nose crushed by the doctor's forceps during birth, christened with the wrong name, an unfortunate incident involving a slamming sash window Discover the anti-autobiography of the hilarious Tristram Shandy.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY TOM MCCARTHY
Trade Review
Tristram Shandy is one of the funniest novels in the English language. It's also one of the first great experimental literary works * Independent *
A mad, recursive, literary joke * Daily Telegraph *
An extraordinary comic tour de force * Guardian *
The ultimate novel about writing a novel * Sunday Telegraph *
An amazing book, seeming like a modern experimental novel but written in the 18th century by an Anglican clergyman. You can dip in and out of it with constant pleasure. -- Bamber Gasgoigne * Daily Express *
