Some Trick: Thirteen Stories

byHelen Dewitt

May 29, 2018|
Some Trick: Thirteen Stories by Helen Dewitt
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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.”
Helen DeWitt was born in a suburb of Washington, DC. Daughter of American diplomats, she grew up mainly in Latin America, living in Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, and Ecuador. She went to Oxford to study classics for a BA and D.Phil. She left academia to try to write a novel, moving eventually to London and acquiring UK citizenship. She had...
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Title:Some Trick: Thirteen Stories
Format:Hardcover
Product dimensions:224 pages, 8.3 X 5.6 X 0.9 in
Shipping dimensions:224 pages, 8.3 X 5.6 X 0.9 in
Published:May 29, 2018
Publisher:New Directions Publishing
Language:English
Appropriate for ages:All ages
ISBN - 13:9780811227827

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