Some Trick: Thirteen Stories
By Helen DeWitt
Read by Tim Campbell , Emily Sutton-Smith , James Langton , and Karen Cass
Unabridged
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2 Formats: CD
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2 Formats: Library CD
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ISBN: 9781978616233
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ISBN: 9781978616233
Runtime: | 6.18 Hours |
Category: | Fiction/Short Stories |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
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.”
Details
Details
Available Formats : | CD, Library CD |
Category: | Fiction/Short Stories |
Runtime: | 6.18 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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