Helen DeWitt
1) Some Trick
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hailed a "Best Book of the Year" by NPR, Publishers Weekly, Vulture, and the New York Public Library, Some Trick is now in paperback
Finalist for the Saroyan Prize for Fiction
Author
Series
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Raised in Marrakech by a French mother and English father, a 17-year-old girl has learned above all to avoid mauvais ton ("bad taste" loses something in the translation). One should not ask servants to wait on one during Ramadan: they must have paid leave while one spends the holy month abroad. One must play the piano; if staying at Claridge's, one must regrettably install a Clavinova in the suite, so that the necessary hours of practice will not...
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"For sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen DeWitt 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...