aa94214199 6 Nov 2010 ... Might I ask you a question? How do you feel when the prose that you are reading suddenly erupts into the interrogative, into a question posed .... 'If Duchamp or maybe Magritte wrote a novel it might look something like this remarkable little book of Padgett Powell's: immensely readable, ingenious, witty, .... Among the most obnoxious things one person can ask of another is to “tell me something true about yourself.” Such a banal and breezily intrusive request .... 23 Jan 2010 ... So when Padgett Powell's most recent book, The Interrogative Mood, was received along similar lines, lines that the subtitle “a novel?”, with the .... it might look something like this remarkable little book of Padgett Powell's.... ... The Interrogative Mood is a wildly inventive, jazzy meditation on life and language .... 1 Oct 2009 ... Interrogative Mood by Padgett Powell available in Hardcover on ... “If Duchamp or maybe Magritte wrote a novel (and maybe they did. Did they .... If Padgett Powell's new book is a novel, in some Dada sense of the word, it looks awfully similar to a list.. The Interrogative Mood ..... He has won the Pulitzer Prize, two National Book Awards, the Francis Parkman Prize and dozens of other honors, and not a single .... 15 Dec 2009 ... Padget Powell's book is like none other: it is composed entirely of questions. Wildly ridiculous and laugh-out-loud funny, it can suddenly turn .... 29 Jan 2011 ... The book is not the first of its kind – 'Gold Fools' by fellow American novelist Gilbert Sorrentino is also completely written in interrogative .... 4 Dec 2010 ... This isn't really a novel, and it might drive you crazy, or delight you. It's a long and apparently formless, pointless list of questions. They are .... “If Duchamp or maybe Magritte wrote a novel (and maybe they did. ... The Interrogative Mood is a wildly inventive, jazzy meditation on life and language by the .... “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.”. 14 Oct 2009 ... Are you happy? Do we need galoshes? Are bluebirds perfect? Do you know the distinctions, empirical or theoretical, between moss and lichen .... 20 Nov 2011 ... Would you enjoy reading a book in which every sentence was a question? Would you ... Do you think you'd like The Interrogative Mood?. If I told you Padgett Powell's new book is a quick, pulsating heart torn from a .... In many ways, The Interrogative Mood is a postmodern detective novel, the .... 7 Dec 2009 ... This literary curiosity consists entirely of questions, vacillating between cocktail-party filler (“If you could see a large-animal trainer mauled in the .... Read "The Interrogative Mood A Novel?" by Padgett Powell with Rakuten Kobo. “If Duchamp or maybe Magritte wrote a novel (and maybe they did. Did they?). “If Duchamp or maybe Magritte wrote a novel (and maybe they did. Did they?) it might look ... —Richard Ford The Interrogative Mood is a wildly inventive.. 22 Oct 2009 ... If I said that “The Interrogative Mood,” the fifth novel by Padgett Powell, was that kind of book, and a captivating and often glorious reading ...
The Interrogative Mood: A Novel
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