Some Trick: Thirteen Stories

Author: Helen Dewitt

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Price : $48.00 NZD
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ISBN : 9780811227827
Publisher : New Directions Publishing Corporation
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Weight (g) : 0.381018
Publication date : 01 April 2018
Dimensions : 2.3 Centimeters X 14.2 Centimeters X 21.1 Centimeters
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Author : Helen Dewitt
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Edition : 1805
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Language : English
Dewey classification : 813
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Pages : 224
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At last a new book: a baker's dozen of stories all with Helen DeWitt's razor-sharp genius

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."