Padgett Powell

The Interrogative Mood: a Novel? Padgett Powell Reprint edition

?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.?

?Richard Ford

The Interrogative Mood is a wildly inventive, jazzy meditation on life and language by the novelist that Ian Frazier hails as ?one of the best writers in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />America, and one of the funniest, too.? A novel composed entirely of questions, it is perhaps the most audacious literary high-wire act since Nicholson Baker?s The Mezzanine or David Foster Wallace?s stories;a playful and profound book that, as Jonathan Safran Foer says, ?will sear the unlucky volumes shelved on either side of it. How it doesn?t, itself, combust in flames is a mystery to me.?