The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney
Marvin K. Mooney, the enigmatic philosopher, has gone missing. Vanished. But we're left with his work: rambling, encyclopedic, destructive texts that call into question Marvin's own identity. Who is Marvin K. Mooney? And what has Christopher Higgs done with him? Only you, as reader, can find...
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Marvin K. Mooney, the enigmatic philosopher, has gone missing. Vanished. But we're left with his work: rambling, encyclopedic, destructive texts that call into question Marvin's own identity. Who is Marvin K. Mooney? And what has Christopher Higgs done with him? Only you, as reader, can find out.The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney seems to me unprecedented via form, making new ways of both telling a story and relaying information, but also doing so in a way that is, as David Foster Wallace so expressly begged for: fun. -Blake Butler, at BookslutA playful, tender, intellectually challenging, and funny novel. -Josh Cook, at The Huffington PostThe Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney is not quite meta-fiction. It's more batshit-crazy fiction. -Ned Vizzini at L MagazineThe sheer greatness of Higgs' novel calls the capacity of the word greatness into question. -Dennis Cooper
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780615339993 (0615339999)
ASIN: 0615339999
Publish date: 2010-10-05
Publisher: Sator Press
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
A strange, bizarreNovel (no)Story (no)Collection of alphabetical symbols (maybe)Meta-fictionorPost-fiction orNon-fiction fiction?Entrancing.And I still don't know where Marvin K. Mooney is. (He's so far out that he's no longer in left field; instead he's probably lurking & smoking on a street corner...