"Innovative, comic, bizarre and beautiful, "The Impossibly"
reads as if Donald Barthelme were channeling Alain Robbe-Grillet,
Samuel Beckett, Ben Marcus and reruns of "Get Smart.""--"Time Out
New York"
When the anonymous narrator botches an assignment from the
clandestine organization that employs him, everyone in his life
becomes a participant in his punishment. In the end, he is called
out of retirement for a final assignment: to seek and identify his
own assassin. This edition includes an introduction by Percival
Everett, an afterword by the author, and a "lost chapter."
Called "one of the most talented young writers on the American
scene today" by Paul Auster, Laird Hunt is the author of four
genre-bending novels and was a finalist for the 2010 PEN Center USA
Award. Born in Singapore and educated at Indiana University and the
Sorbonne in Paris, Hunt has lived in Tokyo, London, The Hague, New
York, and on an Indiana farm. A former press officer at the United
Nations and current faculty member at the University of Denver, he
now lives in Boulder, Colorado.
General
Imprint: |
Coffee House Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
2012 |
First published: |
2012 |
Authors: |
Laird Hunt
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Introduction by: |
Percival Everett
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Dimensions: |
191 x 127 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
240 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-56689-281-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Crime & mystery >
General
|
LSN: |
1-56689-281-3 |
Barcode: |
9781566892810 |
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