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Some Trick: Thirteen Stories

Helen DeWitt
3.35/5 (1016 ratings)
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At last a new a baker’s dozen of stories all with Helen DeWitt’s razor-sharp genius Finalist for the Saroyan Prize for Fiction NPR Best Book of the Year New York Public Library's Best Books for Adults

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 up with all sorts of paraphernalia superfluous, not to say impedimental, to ratiocination.”

Machine generated contents note: Brutto
My Heart Belongs to Bertie
On the Town
Remember Me
Climbers
Improvisation Is the Heart of Music
Famous Last Words
The French Style of Mile Matsumoto
Stolen Luck
In Which Nick Buys a Harley
Trevor
Plantinga
Entourage
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ISBN10:
0811227820
ISBN13:
9780811227827
kindle Asin:
B076HXD9HJ

Some Trick: Thirteen Stories

Helen DeWitt
3.35/5 (1016 ratings)
Read Download
At last a new a baker’s dozen of stories all with Helen DeWitt’s razor-sharp genius Finalist for the Saroyan Prize for Fiction NPR Best Book of the Year New York Public Library's Best Books for Adults

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 up with all sorts of paraphernalia superfluous, not to say impedimental, to ratiocination.”

Machine generated contents note: Brutto
My Heart Belongs to Bertie
On the Town
Remember Me
Climbers
Improvisation Is the Heart of Music
Famous Last Words
The French Style of Mile Matsumoto
Stolen Luck
In Which Nick Buys a Harley
Trevor
Plantinga
Entourage
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
1st Edition, First Edition
Language:
ISBN10:
0811227820
ISBN13:
9780811227827
kindle Asin:
B076HXD9HJ

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