Interrogative Mood, The: A Novel? (P.S.) - Tapa blanda

"The book intrigues as it entertains... [Powell's] questions and nonsequiturs will have you looking at your own life with a renewed sense of observation--and a healthy appetite for the absurd." (5 stars)--Time Out New York

"A supreme literary stunt."--Jonathan Lethem

"A delightful stylistic flight, and as engrossing as staying up late at summer camp considering every goofy or brilliant question that comes into your head. Padgett Powell is one of the best writers in America, and one of the funniest, too."--Ian Frazier

"[Powell] has a rare ear for dialect and dialogue, a dedication to new ways of making words jump and dance and catch fire."--New York Times Magazine

"Intimate and hilarious--the yearning is as powerful as all that is evoked and revealed in this precise and beautiful novel."--Amy Hempel

"[This novel] represents superior value in a crumbling economy. Its pages do not tell a story--they tell thousands of stories, all of them starring you. Powell pokes and prods, soothes and slaps you. By the end you will feel as rich as Haroun al-Rashid on the thousandth night."--Luc Sante

"Captivating and often glorious."--New York Times Book Review, Paperback Row

"If Duchamp or maybe Magritte wrote a novel (and maybe they did. Did they?) it might look something like this remarkable little book of Padgett Powell's: immensely readable, ingenious, witty, and ultimately important-feeling in a way you can't quite describe but don't need to."--Richard Ford

"You don't so much read [The Interrogative Mood] as let it shove and jangle you into unexpected and highly pleasurable states of mind. Powell is a master of nouveau Southern lyricism....How this book works is beyond me, but, miraculously, it does."--Village Voice

"This book will sear the unlucky volumes shelved on either side of it. How it doesn't, itself, combust in flames is a mystery to me. Padgett Powell has given us a wake-up call."--Jonathan Safran Foer