Laurence Sterne 
Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 

Sterne’s utterly original novel – the meandering, maddening ‘autobiography’ of one of literature’s oldest comic characters.Doomed to become the sport of fortune by an interruption at the crucial moment of conception, Tristram Shandy s life lurches from one mishap to another: his nose crushed by the doctor s forceps during birth, christened with the wrong name, an unfortunate incident involving a slamming sash window Discover the anti-autobiography of the hilarious Tristram Shandy. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY TOM MCCARTHY Tristram Shandy is one of the funniest novels in the English language. It’s also one of the first great experimental literary works Independent