Name: The Impossibly
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Author: Percival Everett
ISBN: 9781566892810

Type

Physical Book

Author

Laird Hunt

Introduction by

Percival Everett

Publisher

Coffee House Press

Year

2012

Language

English

Pages

240

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.6 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.48 kg.

ISBN13

9781566892810

Synopsis "The Impossibly"

"Innovative, comic, bizarre and beautiful, The Impossibly reads as if Donald Barthelme were channeling Alain Robbe-Grillet, Samuel Beckett, Ben Marcus and reruns of Get Smart."--Time Out New YorkWhen the anonymous narrator botches an assignment from the clandestine organization that employs him, everyone in his life becomes a participant in his punishment. In the end, he is called out of retirement for a final assignment: to seek and identify his own assassin. This edition includes an introduction by Percival Everett, an afterword by the author, and a "lost chapter."Called "one of the most talented young writers on the American scene today" by Paul Auster, Laird Hunt is the author of four genre-bending novels and was a finalist for the 2010 PEN Center USA Award. Born in Singapore and educated at Indiana University and the Sorbonne in Paris, Hunt has lived in Tokyo, London, The Hague, New York, and on an Indiana farm. A former press officer at the United Nations and current faculty member at the University of Denver, he now lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Percival Everett

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He is considered by critics as one of the great American writers of this century. Born in 1956 in Georgia (USA). His voice breaks molds through a strange mix of depth of thought and wild humor. He has received numerous awards. He was a finalist for the Booker Prize for The Trees. The film adaptation of his novel Canceled won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay as American Fiction in 2024.

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