The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith

Peter Carey

Pauline had thoroughly enjoyed Oscar and Lucinda by the same author. This story was quite different and is about the life of a human who is very deformed and is set in a vaguely fictitious place in the year 371. There are a great many footnotes which Pauline found aggravating. After about one hundred pages she started to ignore them and then found the book a really good read. The character lives in a travelling circus and the story involves working out identity and deals with disability, politics, and cultures oppressed by other cultures. She thought it was a good book and recommended it
Pauline 5/12/99

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