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A Cold Clear Day by Frank Murphy

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A Cold Clear Day by Frank Murphy

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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ISBN 13 9780735103993
ISBN 10 0735103992
Title A Cold Clear Day
Author Frank Murphy
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Wind Sprint Press
Year published 2000-03-01
Number of pages 202
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.