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Glyph

Glyph

Everett, Percival

Paperback

Literary Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 1555976670
ISBN13: 9781555976675
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: Feb 18 2014
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.52 Depth: 8.35
Language: English

In paperback for the first time, the much-beloved satirical novel The New York Times praised as both a treatise and a romp


Baby Ralph has ways to pass the time in his crib--but they don't include staring at a mobile. Aided by his mother, he reads voraciously: All of Swift, all of Sterne, Invisible Man, Baldwin, Joyce, Balzac, Auden, Roethke, along with a generous helping of philosophy, semiotics, and trashy thrillers. He's also fond of writing poems and stories (in crayon). But Ralph has limits. He's mute by choice and can't drive, so in his own estimation he's not a genius. Unfortunately for him, everyone else disagrees. His psychiatrist kidnaps him for testing, and once his brilliance is quantified (IQ: 475), a Pentagon officer also abducts him. Diabolically funny and lacerating in its critique of poststructuralism, Glyph has the feverish plot of a thriller and the philosophical depth of a text by Roland Barthes. If anyone can map the wilds of literary theory, it's Ralph, one of Percival Everett's most enduring creations.

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