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Busy Monsters

William Giraldi

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Echoing a narrative line that includes Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller, William Giraldi's Busy Monsters has been hailed as one of the most exciting fiction debuts in years. Penned with a linguistic bravado that explores the diaphanous line between fiction and fact, this "very funny, very inventive début novel" (The New Yorker) has at last revived the great American picaresque tradition.

Book Details

  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publish Date: Aug 6th, 2012
  • Pages: 304
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.40in - 0.90in - 0.50lb
  • EAN: 9780393342932
  • Categories: • Literary• Action & Adventure• Satire

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About the Author

Giraldi, William: - William Giraldi is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Busy Monsters and Hold the Dark; the memoir The Hero's Body; and a collection of criticism, American Audacity. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is master lecturer in the Writing Program at Boston University.

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Praise for this book

Comedy, satire, farce, language. . . . [A] release from the familiar and banal . . . has the kind of agenda that gives heft to the picaresque novels from which it is derived.-- "New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice"
Wonderful. . . . Singular and arresting . . . filled with quirky turns of phrase, unexpected literary and cultural allusions, self-aware asides, and highfalutin word choices that would make Roget swell with pride.-- "Salon"
Starred Review. [A] riotous debut novel.-- "Publishers Weekly"
Starred Review. A brilliant first novel that may well be in the running for 2011 literary awards.-- "Library Journal"