{"product_id":"the-interrogative-mood-a-novel-9780061859434","title":"The Interrogative Mood: A Novel?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Richard Ford\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Interrogative Mood \u003c\/em\u003eis 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Mezzanine \u003c\/em\u003eor David Foster Wallace's stories;\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ea 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.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePowell, Padgett:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003ePadgett Powell is the author of six novels, including \u003cem\u003eEdisto\u003c\/em\u003e, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and two collections of stories. His writing has appeared in the \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHarper's\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eParis Review\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as in \u003cem\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Best American Sports Writing\u003c\/em\u003e. He has received a Whiting Writers' Award, the Rome Fellowship in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He lives in Gainesville, Florida, where he teaches at MFA@FLA, the writing program of the University of Florida.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50692583915794,"sku":"9780061859434","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_17c6e01a-a751-4a8c-b396-dd8bb5d3af5f.jpg?v=1734128320","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-interrogative-mood-a-novel-9780061859434","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}