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The Interrogative Mood

“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.”
129 printed pages
Original publication
2009
Publication year
2009
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Quotes

  • Valentyna Brusenkohas quoted8 years ago
    Have you decided yet what historical moment you would most like to have witnessed with your own eyes and ears?
  • Valentyna Brusenkohas quoted8 years ago
    Who in your opinion was the greatest conqueror, militarily speaking, in history?
  • Valentyna Brusenkohas quoted8 years ago
    Do you know anyone on whom you can drop in unannounced and in whose kitchen you might then sit and talk pleasantly?
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