Some Trick: Thirteen Stories, Hardcover
Descriere
For sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen De Witt 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 De Witt'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.
Despre autor
Helen DeWitt este o romancieră americană. Este autoarea romanelor The Last Samurai (2000) și Lightning Rods (2011), precum și a culegerii de nuvele Some Trick (2018). În 2025, romanul Your Name Here, pe care l-a co-scris cu Ilya Gridneff și pe care l-a publicat pe site-ul său personal în 2008, a fost reeditat ca o carte comercială.
