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The Interrogative Mood: A Novel?

The Interrogative Mood: A Novel?

Powell, Padgett

Paperback

Series: P.S.

HumorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0061859435
ISBN13: 9780061859434
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: Oct 5 2010
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

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'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.

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