Revised edition. Book club. Jacket shows minor chipping; fading at spine. Black cloth boards. Foxing to fore edge of text block. Wild, sprawling, satirical epic—a metafictional tour de force that both mimics and mocks the grand narratives of history, literature, and identity. At its core, it’s a postmodern reimagining of the 18th-century novel, presented in the style of a bawdy, picaresque adventure.