The Interrogative Mood: A Novel?

The Interrogative Mood: A Novel?"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." Richard Ford The Interrogative Mood is a wildly inventive, jazzy meditation on life and language by the novelist that Ian Frazier hails as "one of the best writers in America, and one of the funniest, too." A novel composed entirely of questions, it is perhaps the most audacious literary high wire

"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."--Richard Ford
The Interrogative Mood is a wildly inventive, jazzy meditation on life and language by the novelist that Ian Frazier hails as "one of the best writers in America, and one of the funniest, too." A novel composed entirely of questions, it is perhaps the most audacious literary high-wire act since Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine or David Foster Wallace's stories; a playful and profound book that, as Jonathan Safran Foer says, "will sear the unlucky volumes shelved on either side of it. How it doesn't, itself, combust in flames is a mystery to me." --St. Petersburg Times

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 10/05/2010
ISBN: 9780061859434
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.40d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 12/05/2010 pg. 62
Entertainment Weekly 03/21/2014 pg. 42