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The Last Samurai

Paperback • 2016 • English

The Last Samurai

By Helen DeWitt

2 Ratings • 4.5 of 5

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About the book

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 disastrousl...Show more

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

Book details

ISBN

9780811225502

Publisher

NEW DIRECTIONS PUBLISHING CORPORATION

Published year

2016

Language

English

Original title

The Last Samurai

Format

Paperback

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