Interrogative Mood, The: A Novel? (P.S.) - Softcover

Powell, Padgett

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061859435 ISBN 13: 9780061859434

Verlag: Ecco, 2010

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Book by Powell Padgett

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Críticas:

"The book intrigues as it entertains... [Powell's] questions and nonsequiturs will have you looking at your own life with a renewed sense of observation--and a healthy appetite for the absurd." (5 stars)--Time Out New York

"A supreme literary stunt."--Jonathan Lethem

"A delightful stylistic flight, and as engrossing as staying up late at summer camp considering every goofy or brilliant question that comes into your head. Padgett Powell is one of the best writers in America, and one of the funniest, too."--Ian Frazier

"[Powell] has a rare ear for dialect and dialogue, a dedication to new ways of making words jump and dance and catch fire."--New York Times Magazine

"Intimate and hilarious--the yearning is as powerful as all that is evoked and revealed in this precise and beautiful novel."--Amy Hempel

"[This novel] represents superior value in a crumbling economy. Its pages do not tell a story--they tell thousands of stories, all of them starring you. Powell pokes and prods, soothes and slaps you. By the end you will feel as rich as Haroun al-Rashid on the thousandth night."--Luc Sante

"Captivating and often glorious."--New York Times Book Review, Paperback Row

"If Duchamp or maybe Magritte wrote a novel (and maybe they did. Did they?) it might look something like this remarkable little book of Padgett Powell's: immensely readable, ingenious, witty, and ultimately important-feeling in a way you can't quite describe but don't need to."--Richard Ford

"You don't so much read [The Interrogative Mood] as let it shove and jangle you into unexpected and highly pleasurable states of mind. Powell is a master of nouveau Southern lyricism....How this book works is beyond me, but, miraculously, it does."--Village Voice

"This book will sear the unlucky volumes shelved on either side of it. How it doesn't, itself, combust in flames is a mystery to me. Padgett Powell has given us a wake-up call."--Jonathan Safran Foer

Reseña del editor:

“If Duchamp or maybe Magritte wrote a novel (and maybe they did. Did they?) it might look something like this remarkable little book of Padgett Powell’s.”

—Richard Ford

The Interrogative Mood is a wildly inventive, jazzy meditation on life and language by the novelist that Ian Frazier hails as “one of the best writers in America, and one of the funniest, too.” A novel composed entirely of questions, it is perhaps the most audacious literary high-wire act since Nicholson Baker’sThe Mezzanine or David Foster Wallace’s stories; a playful and profound book that, asJonathan Safran Foer says, “will sear the unlucky volumes shelved on either side of it. How it doesn’t, itself, combust in flames is a mystery to me.”

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• Verlag: Ecco
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0061859435
• ISBN 13: 9780061859434
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192