Busy Monsters A Novel

Name: Busy Monsters A Novel
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ISBN: 9780393342932

ISBN-10: 039334293X

ISBN-13: 9780393342932

Edition: 2012

Authors: William Giraldi

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Echoing a narrative line that includes Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller, William Giraldi’s Busy Monsters has been hailed as one of the most exciting fiction debuts in years. Penned with a linguistic bravado that explores the diaphanous line between fiction and fact, this very funny, very inventive début novel (The New Yorker) has at last revived the great American picaresque tradition.Comedy, satire, farce, language. . . . [A] release from the familiar and banal . . . has the kind of agenda that gives heft to the picaresque novels from which it is derived.—New York Times Book Review, Editors’ ChoiceWonderful. . . . Singular and arresting . . . filled with quirky turns of phrase, unexpected…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/6/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 0.55" wide x 0.82" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English