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Ecco
October 2009
On Sale: October 1, 2009
176 pages
ISBN: 0061859419
EAN: 9780061859410
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Fiction Family Life
Are you happy? Do we need galoshes? Are bluebirds perfect?
Do you know the distinctions, empirical or theoretical,
between moss and lichen? Is it clear to you why I am asking
you all these questions? Should I go away? Leave you alone?
Should I bother but myself with the interrogative mood? The
acclaimed writer Padgett Powell is fascinated by what it
feels like to walk through everyday life, to hear the swing
and snap of American talk, to be both electrified and
overwhelmed by the mad cacophony—the "muchness"—of America. The Interrogative Mood is Powell's playful and profound
response, a bebop solo of a book in which every sentence is
a question. Perhaps only Powell—a writer who was once touted
as the best of his generation by Saul Bellow and "among the
top five writers of fiction in the country" by Barry
Hannah—could pull off such a remarkable stylistic feat. Is it a novel? Whatever it is, The Interrogative Mood is one
of the most audacious literary high-wire acts since
Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine. Powell's unnamed narrator
forces us to consider our core beliefs, our most cherished
memories, our views on life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness. In fiction as in life, there may be no easy
answers—but The Interrogative Mood is an exuberant book that
leaves the reader feeling a little more alive.
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