The Interrogative Mood A Novel? |
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| Author:
| Powell, Padgett |
| ISBN: | 978-0-06-185943-4 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2010 |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers
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| Imprint: | Ecco |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $14.99USD $17.00 |
Book Description:
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“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 awildly inventive, jazzy...
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“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 awildly inventive, jazzy meditation on life and language by the novelist that Ian Frazier hails as “one of the best writers inAmerica, 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’s The Mezzanine or David Foster Wallace’s stories; a playful and profound book that, as Jonathan 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.”