Quichotte : a novel /

"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...

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Main Author: Salman Rushdie
Format: Printed Book
Published: USA: Hamish Hamilton, 2019.
Subjects:
English literature-Fiction
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