The Truth: A Novel of Discworld - Hardcover

Pratchett, Terry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0380978954 ISBN 13: 9780380978953

Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers, 2000

Synopsis

A twenty-fifth installment of the popular Discworld series finds William de Worde plunged into the world of investigative journalism after a high official is impeached following a botched murder attempt. 50,000 first printing.

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Review:

The Truth is Terry Pratchett's 25th novel about Discworld in general and the dirt-encrusted metropolis of Ankh-Morpork in particular--home of the sinister Patrician, the Unseen University of magicians and guilds for everything from Assassins to Thieves, taking in Clowns (but not mimes) along the way. Ankh-Morpork has weathered several influxes of technology in its time--a demon-inspired invention of the movies, the brief fad for Music with Rocks in it--and now it has acquired a free press, dedicated newshounds, dwarf printers with not especially nasty tempers (for dwarves), and people who want to see their amusing vegetables in the "On a Lighter Note" section. The business of politics (attempts by the old aristocracy to unseat the Patrician) is ratcheted up a notch and Vimes, of the City Watch, is in a worse temper than usual. William de Worde, editor, reporter and investigator, is another attractive Pratchett hero, captured for us in the middle of wonderfully parodied routines from old movies and fiction that he, in his world, is doing for the first time. This is inventive farce with touches of high seriousness and ethical good sense, and two of the nastiest doomed hitmen outside Tarantino. --Roz Kaveney

Review:

"The 25th Discworld novel"

"'Other writers are mining the rich seam of comic fantasy that Pratchett first unearthed, but what keeps Pratchett on top is - quite literally - the way he tells them.'" (The Times)

"'One of the funniest English authors alive'" (Independent)

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0380978954
• ISBN 13: 9780380978953
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 324