The Truth

Pratchett, Terry

ISBN 10: 0385601026 / ISBN 13: 9780385601023

Published by Doubleday, 2000

About this Item

1st ed/1st pr. Square, solid, and unread with lovely dust jacket in protective archival cover. Gorgeous, ridiculously nice copy. No price clippings, no remainder marks. You'll feel as though you must have slipped the librarian a few scoops of ice cream to go with those particularly ripe bananas, to have been so lucky as to have scored a treasured tome of this quality youll be climbing the shelves of the library with wild abandon! NOTE: Light age-toning to the sides of the pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Truth
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385601026
• ISBN 13: 9780385601023
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Josh Kirby
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

Hardcover in very good condition. First edition, first printing. Spine board a little bumped at the foot. Jacket and leading edges have some shelfwear. Tiny nick to the front lower spine edge of jacket. A few tiny nicks along the edges of the front inner flap. Page block lightly marked. Binding is sound and all text is clear throughout. CM

Review

The Truth, Pratchett's 25th Discworld novel, skewers the newspaper business. When printing comes to Ankh-Morpork, it "drag(s) the city kicking and screaming into the Century of the Fruitbat." Well, actually, out of the Century of the Fruitbat. As the Bursar remarks, if the era's almost over, it's high time they embraced its challenges.

William de Worde, well-meaning younger son of reactionary nobility, has been providing a monthly newsletter to the elite using engraving. Then he is struck (and seriously bruised) by the power of the press. The dwarves responsible convince William to expand his letter and the Ankh-Morpork Times is born. Soon William has a staff, including Sacharissa Cripslock, a genteel young lady with a knack for headline writing, and photographer Otto Chriek. Otto's vampirism causes difficulties: flash pictures cause him to crumble to dust and need reconstitution, and he must battle his desire for blood, particularly Sacharissa's. When Lord Vetinari is accused of attempted murder, the City Watch investigates the peculiar circumstances, but William wants to know what really happened. The odds for his survival drop as his questions multiply.

The Truth is satirical, British, and full of sly jokes. Although this cake doesn't rise quite as high as it did in previous volumes, even ordinary Pratchett is pretty darn good, and those who haven't read a Discworld novel before can start here and go on to that incredible backlist. --Nona Vero