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Rushdie, Salman,

Quichotte : a novel / Salman Rushdie. - London : Jonathan Cape, 2019. - xii, 390 pages ; 24 cm.

"Quichotte, an aging traveling salesman obsessed with the "unreal real" of TV, falls in impossible love with a queen of the screen; while obsessively writing her love letters, he wishes an imaginary son, Sancho, into existence. Together they set off across America in Quichotte's trusty Chevy Cruze to find her and convince her of his love. Meanwhile, Quichotte's tragicomic story is being told by the author who created him: Brother, a mediocre spy novelist in the midst of a midlife crisis. As their stories intertwine, we are taken on a wild, picaresque journey through a country on the edge of moral and spiritual collapse. Just as Cervantes wrote Don Quixote to satirize the culture of his time, Rushdie brings us a new twist on a classic."--Publisher description.

ISBN: 9781787331914 1787331911 178733192X 9781787331921

Source: 16014616 ybp

LCCN: 2019016494

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Midlife crisis--Fiction.
Traveling sales personnel--Fiction.
Voyages and travels--Fiction.
Novelists--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Road fiction.
Satirical fiction.

LC Class. No.: PR6068.U757 / Q53 2019

Dewey Class. No.: 823/.914