Some trick : 13 stories
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New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, [2018].
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New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, [2018].
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viii, 197 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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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 counterfactuals, situations spinning out to their utmost logical extremes, and Rube Goldberg-like moving parts, where things prove "more complicated than they had first appeared" and "at 3 a.m. the circumstances seem to attenuate." In various ways, each tale carries DeWitt's signature poker-face lament regarding the near-impossibility of the life of the mind when one is made to pay to have the time for it, in a world so sadly "taken up with all sorts of paraphernalia superfluous, not to say impedimental, to ratiocination."
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Dewitt, H. (2018). Some trick: 13 stories (First edition.). New Directions Publishing Corporation.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dewitt, Helen, 1957-. 2018. Some Trick: 13 Stories. New Directions Publishing Corporation.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dewitt, Helen, 1957-. Some Trick: 13 Stories New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Dewitt, Helen. Some Trick: 13 Stories First edition., New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2018.
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