I thoroughly recommend this book whose title and author I have quite forgotten
April 12, 2010 6:51 AM   Subscribe

Please help me identify this half-remembered novel: boy genius (Ludo/Ludovic?) is educated by his single mother, who judges quite correctly that he's far too bright to go to school, and who refuses to tell him who his father is because he's the result of a one night stand with somebody she thinks is utterly beneath both of them because he's in advertising or TV or something of that ilk.
posted by flabdablet to Media & Arts (4 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
Best answer: The Last Samurai, by Helen DeWitt.
posted by novalis_dt at 6:52 AM on April 12, 2010


Response by poster: Thanks!

AskMe is the best librarian I know.
posted by flabdablet at 6:54 AM on April 12, 2010


This is one is my absolute favorite books ever.
posted by Eshkol at 6:58 AM on April 12, 2010


Helen DeWitt's blog, paper pools, is really good. At least it is if you liked the tone of her novel.
posted by OmieWise at 7:01 AM on April 12, 2010


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