The Breadmaker's Carnival

By Andrew Lindsay

Book Overview

In the town of Bacherotto, remarkable forces of faith, sex, and hunger are driving the inhabitants into uncontrollable frenzies of bizarre and unexplained behaviors. The baker Gianni Terremoto begins... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060198427
• ISBN13: 9780060198428
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Ecco
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.2" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

It touched all human necessities,

they are food, sex, expressing oneself and religion. Lindsay did it in such a way only someone has theatre training can do. The best book I read in recent years.

A MUST READ- THE BREAKMAKER'S CARNIVAL

The Breadmaker's Carnival is one of the most original works by an Australian writer that I have read. An imaginary Italian village of bizarre and humorous characters and events. I just loved this book and could not put it down. Can't wait for this writer's next work of fiction which I believe is nearing completion while he spends the next 6 months in Rome. Love Andrew Lindsay's style of writing and bizarre and wonderfully refreshing humour. -

a crazed exploration of sexual humour and human folly

The reviewer above is a moron who failed to read one of Australia's best examples of wild writing.I read a chapter portion (all the chapters are 2-6 pages long) to my reading group and it shocked the hell outta them! Throughout 300 pages of short hits Andrew Lindsay keeps comedy, sex and tragedy alive with smells of bread and excretion playing off a wide pool of characters. The final third of the story burns with pace and is concluded fittingly.This is the best Australian novel to date I have read (read the media reviews and all will be confirmed).