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The last samurai / Helen DeWitt.
- Title
- The last samurai / Helen DeWitt.
- Author
- DeWitt, Helen, 1957-
- Publication
- New York : New Directions, 2016.
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- Additional Authors
- New Directions Publishing
- Description
- x, 484 pages; 21 cm.
- Summary
- 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 disastrously well. J. S. Mill (taught Greek at three) and Yo Yo Ma (Bach at two) claimed the methods would work with any child; when these succeed with the boy Ludo, he causes havoc at school and is home again in a month. (Is he a prodigy, a genius? Readers looking over Ludo's shoulder find themselves easily reading Greek and more.) Lacking male role models for a fatherless boy, Sibylla turns to endless replays of Kurosawa's masterpiece Seven Samurai. But Ludo is obsessed with the one thing he wants and doesn't know: his father's name. At eleven, inspired by his own take on the classic film, he sets out on a secret quest for the father he never knew. He'll be punched, sliced, and threatened with retribution. He may not live to see twelve. Or he may find a real samurai and save a mother who thinks boredom a fate worse than death.
- Series Statement
- New Directions paperbook ; 1340
- Uniform Title
- New Directions paperbook 1340.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Bildungsromans
- Domestic fiction
- Fiction
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Note
- "First published by Miramax/Talk Books in 2000 ; first published by New Directions as NDP1340 in 2016"--Title page verso.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780811225502
- 081122550X
- 9780811220347
- 0811220346
- LCCN
- ^^2016002316
- OCLC
- 923794481
- SCSB-12691393
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library