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You & I (2011)

by Padgett Powell(Favorite Author)

3.54 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1846688167 (ISBN13: 9781846688164)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Serpent's Tail

review 1: Often compared to Beckett's Waiting For Godot, You & I is an exceptionally odd book. Is it a novel? Is it a play? It's certainly not Superman! There is no punctuation other than the odd full stop here and there and the only distinction between characters is the presence of a new line.This book took a lot of concentration to read but it was worth it!If you love quirky novels outside of the norm, then this is worth checking out!
review 2: ��Life will not be explained; sweep away the evidence.�� And as it were, Powell��s ��You And Me�� lumbers an amphetaminic tarantella through profuse, express-way aphorism and that indelicate gafflegab which instructs the pages of Lewis Carroll��s beloved relic of a sweetheart. Powell ex... moreercises, with unmolested profundity, a romanticism of the absurd quotidian go-arounds, bedecking his booze-soaped interlocutors with wit, pith, and a most sparkling cynicism �� from Judy Garland to Julia Child, to crooked-nosed poets to the springs of morphine, the inherent biology of the story is cellular and celluloid, much delivered of the trappings of contemporary literary dilettantism. These ��sloppy vampires�� chat earnestly about the coiffures of nihilism, the prose tottering deliberately in benumbed stupefaction, as every moor of imagination is explored, though hardly remarked. The somnambulistic dialogue may feel awkward to some, but philosophically the work is nearly sick with the existential sexuality of Sartre. Powell indexes nostalgic fires with ��halcyon�� sureness, and, sometimes, prefigures all the purple ballyhoo with a methodical silence, for ��disputing nothing is the first step unto miracles.�� less

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