Busy Monsters: A Novel
“The best literary present . . . has a delicate sweetness that shows through at just the right moments.”—Ron Charles, Washington Post Book WorldEchoing a narrative line that includes Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller, William Giraldi’s Busy Monsters has been hailed as one of the most exciting...
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“The best literary present . . . has a delicate sweetness that shows through at just the right moments.”—Ron Charles, Washington Post Book WorldEchoing 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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393342932 (039334293X)
ASIN: 039334293X
Publish date: 2012-08-06
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
I didn't really have any expectations coming into this book, which may have made the experience that much better. The whole thing came as somewhat of a surprise. The way Charlie Homar speaks and writes is melodramatic, verbose, often pretty funny. The novel mirrors his serialized memoirs that he w...
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