Some trick : thirteen stories / Helen DeWitt.
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."
Record details
- ISBN: 9780811227827
- ISBN: 0811227820
- Physical Description: viii, 197 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, [2018]
Content descriptions
General Note: | "A new directions book" -- title page. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Brutto -- My heart belongs to Bertie -- On the town -- Remember me -- Climbers -- Improvisation is the heart of music -- Famous last words -- French style of Mlle Matsumoto -- Stolen luck -- In which Nick buys a Harley -- Trevor -- Plantinga -- Entourage. |
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Genre: | Short stories. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Jefferson Co PL - Madison Main Branch | FICTION DEWI (Text) | 39391006880197 | Fiction | Available | - |
Westfield Washington PL - Westfield | FIC Dewitt (Text) | 78292000373254 | Adult Fiction Books | Available | - |
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