Lacking Character - Softcover
In the spirit of 'transcendent buffoonery' Curtis White's miraculous return to fiction is fun in the extreme. When a masked man arrives in N -, Illinois bearing a letter and claiming its contents a matter of life or death, the small town and the fabric of reality will never be the same.
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"A comic, absurd delight... White is a postmodern master, and in this wild satire he transforms the banal into magic."--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "Endlessly inventive and endlessly imitative... [Lacking Character] bills itself equally as a bomb tossed into the bunker of literary convention; an algorithm endlessly replicating the capitalist apocalypse; a picaresque through which White's mad characters tilt at real giants disguised as miniature-golf windmills. The result is a profane wrestling match between high style and low comedy which owes as much to Rocky and Bullwinkle as it does to Gauguin's Vision After the Sermon."--KIRKUS REVIEWS "A blistering, madcap romp through the current zeitgeist."--BOOKLIST "Raw, rude and rowdy metaphysical slapstick, packed with buffoonery, frantic, at times wistful. Lacking Character is meant to amuse, piss off and, above all, distract from prevailing, pandemic lunacies."--Rikki Ducornet "Lacking Character is marvelous. It is what writing must be (what is required) in this very moment of the Kali Yuga."--Mark Leyner "White supplies a running satire of American life, viewing the absurdities of the present through novelistic conventions from centuries past. He mixes the highfalutin language of lords and ladies with the cadences of screwball comedy and an American strip-mall landscape." - POPMATTERS
About the Author:
Curtis White is afounder of The Fiction Collective 2.His latest book are We, Robots and The Science Delusion. His novels include Memories of My Father Watching TV and Monstrous Possibility.
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- PublisherMelville House Publishing
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1612196780
- ISBN 13 9781612196787
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages176
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