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Pull Devil, Pull Baker Paperback Book

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At a Glance
Vagabond's memoirs reimagined
Strikingly contemporary writing
Post-modern truth exploration
Long-awaited reissued classic
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Pull Devil, Pull Baker is one of the most innovative autobiographies/biographiesever written.The novelist Stella Benson first encountered an eccentric Russian nobleman, Count Nicolas de Toulouse Lautrec De Savine, in the paupers ward of a Hong Kong hospital. Striking up a friendship, she found herself fascinated by the Counts garrulous memoirs, written in a unique blend of English, French, and Russian.The Counts adventures includeda stint as a Russian cavalry officer, gold mining in California, a failed attempt to establish himself as Czar of Bulgaria, a number of getrichquick schemes, and countless romantic entanglements. Were these all inventions of his fervid mind, like a latterday Baron Munchausen? Were they true? Could they be both?In Pull Devil, Pull Baker, Stella Benson not only collected the Counts fascinatingly barmy recollections but provided a virtuosic running commentary that reflects on the nature of memory, truth, and the power of storytelling. In the process, she created a book that anticipates by decades the "new nonfiction" school of such bestsellers as The Lifespan of a Fact and in various ways the work of Geoff Dyer, W. G. Sebald, Maggie Nelson, Ben Lerner, Chris Kraus, Miranda Julyand many others who todayflicker creatively between fiction and fact.

SKU: M9781913861605
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Binding: Paperback;380 pages; Publisher: UEA PUBLISHING PROJECT, LTD.; Classification: BG; Weight: 544 g; Dimensions: 198 x 131 x 33

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