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The Solitary Twin
Reader Score
73%
73% of readers
recommend this book
Critic Reviews
Great
Based on 8 reviews on
Harry Mathews's brilliant final work, The Solitary Twin, is an engaging mystery that simultaneously considers the art of storytelling. When identical twins arrive at an unnamed fishing port, they become the focus of the residents' attention and gossip. The stories they tell about the young men uncover a dizzying web of connections, revealing passion, sex, and murder. Fates are surprisingly intertwined, and the result is a moving, often hilarious, novel that questions our assumptions about life and literature.
Book Details
- Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Publish Date: Mar 27th, 2018
- Pages: 160
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.80in - 5.10in - 0.40in - 0.30lb
- EAN: 9780811227544
- Categories: • Literary• Psychological• Satire
About the Author
Mathews, Harry: - Harry Mathews (1930-2017) was born in New York. A founding editor of the literary journal Locus Solus, he wrote novels, poetry, short fiction, essays, and translations from the French. His many books include Cigarettes (1987), The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium (1999), and The Human Country (2002).
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Critics’ reviews
Praise for this book
The Solitary Twin is the perfect endnote for Harry Mathews and a superb point of entry for new readers, encapsulating his lifelong commitment to formal invention while simply being an excellent novel in its own right.--J.W. McCormack "BOMB Magazine"
An imagination and an ingenuity that are often just astonishing.-- "Harper's"
A fascinating, discursive swan song that celebrates the power of stories.--Tyler Malone "La Times" (3/23/2018 12:00:00 AM)
As the novel circles closer to the grand reveal promised by its title, Mathews toys with the reader's 'desire to resolve the irresolute, to conclude the incomplete, to have the crooked made straight.' The result is an undeniably clever parting shot from one of contemporary literature's most playfully challenging writers.-- "Publishers Weekly"
One of the most remarkable prose stylists presently writing in English.-- "San Francisco Chronicle"
Posthumous books almost always feel half-formed, coincidental, unpublished for a reason....The Solitary Twin, however, may well be the last great surprise Mathews pulled out of his deep bag of tricks. It is funny, perplexing, consistent and unusual, with all the characteristic Mathews obsessions. It may also be one of the best places to start enjoying his work.-- "The New York Times Book Review"
Comic extravaganza that plays mockingly with every device of fiction.-- "Washington Post Book World"
Like Roubaud and Perec, Mathews engineers a funhouse labyrinth in which guise disfigures guise and the logic that reigns is that of representation.-- "Village Voice"