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- Publisher: Ecco
- Number of Pages: 192
- ISBN: 0061859419
- WAPI (Tower ID): 113267527
- Release Date: October 1, 2009
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #32399 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
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- #1053 in General (See Top 100 General Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "The Interrogative Mood" by Padgett Powell to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "The Interrogative Mood"Browse more products related to "Padgett Powell"Review"Thoughtful, cajoling and absurdist, Powell's random non sequiturs are not without their method....Hilarity, irony, and sheer perverseness vie to question essentially what we know and how what we know make us what we are." "[T]he narrative bounces along with assured rhythm, an inspired sense of comedy and a style that feels artful without ever becoming chilly....[These] questions and nonsequiturs will have you looking at your own life with a renewed sense of observation--and a healthy appetite for the absurd." "[A] fearless meditation on the sublime and the trivial, a hydra-headed reflection of life as it is experienced and of thought as it is felt....Powell's...book is a remarkable collection of philosophical inquiries, stimulating either/ors and good-faith attempts to measure the gap between where we are as a species and where we belong....Powell, with his outsize romanticism and urge only to connect, shows that it is through questions rather than answers that truth can, however fleetingly, be glimpsed." Publisher's noteA wildly inventive jazz meditation on life and language is written using only questions for the sentences, in a book that shows the writer's fascination with the snap and swing of American talk. 25,000 first printing. A wildly inventive jazz meditation on life and language is written using only questions for the sentences, in a book that shows the writer's fascination with the snap and swing of American talk. 25,000 first printing. AnnotationWhen you talk to yourself, do you ask a lot of questions? Do your questions ever get answered? Do they just multiply and accumulate in your brain until you have to tell yourself to stop asking so many questions? What if you couldn't make it stop? If there was a novel written entirely out of questions, would you read it? What if it was written by Padgett Powell? Did you know that Saul Bellow called Padgett Powell the best writer of his generation? What kind of story can Powell tell with just a bunch of questions? Does he answer any of the questions? Does he illuminate the nature of existence by mapping our mental circuits? Can he make us gasp and laugh and think and chase our thoughts in circles like a dog with a short tail? Aren't you curious to find out? If You Enjoy "The Interrogative Mood (Hardcover)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "The Interrogative Mood (Hardcover)" by Padgett Powell (Author)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! General BestsellersFiction & Literature Bestselling Books
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