Endlessly digressive, boundlessly imaginative and unmatched in its absurd and timeless wit Laurence Sterne\'s great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it, with a rich metafictional narrative that might classify it as the first \'postmodern\' novel.
Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and Life of the unfortunate \'hero\' Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and.
Endlessly digressive, boundlessly imaginative and unmatched in its absurd and timeless wit Laurence Sterne\'s great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it, with a rich metafictional narrative that might classify it as the first \'postmodern\' novel