โ Lynn Michaels
๐ Fiction
๐
2021
๐ Blue-eyeds Dreams LLC
๐ English
โ 1 MB
โฆ LIBER โฆ
Some trick: 13 stories
โ Scribed by Helen DeWitt
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 162 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0811227820
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
At last a new book: a baker's dozen of stories all with Helen DeWitt's razor-sharp genius
For sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen DeWitt into the funniest, most yonder dimensions of possibility. Her jumping-off points might be statistics, romance, the art world's piranha tank, games of chance and games of skill, the travails of publishing, or success. "Look," a character begins to explain, laying out some gambit reasonably enough, even if facing a world of boomeranging counterfactuals, situations spinning out to their utmost logical extremes, and Rube Goldberg-like moving parts, where things prove "more complicated than they had first appeared" and "at 3 a.m. the circumstances seem to attenuate." In various ways, each tale carries DeWitt's signature poker-face lament regarding the near-impossibility of the life of the mind when one is made to pay to have the time for it, in a world so sadly "taken...
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