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Two friends, one dying and one lonely; an adolescent's first homosexual stirrings for his sister's boyfriend, and a high school crush that falls painfully short of a movie projected on a grungy screen. A moving and shifting story that explores this most troublesome of emotions, love.
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'The ingenuity and panache of these stories is instantly attractive.' Daily Telegraph
‘One of our most dazzling literary conjurers shuffles the deck of contemporary consciousness and desire. A thrilling feat of tragic magic.' Michael Chabon
'Handler's writing is artful, perverse, irreverent, truthful and ridiculous – but it's rarely less than brilliant.' New Statesman
'Witty, perplexing...This is an interesting and intelligent work, of which I think Lemony Snicket would be proud.' Literary Review
'Cleverly held together...as thought-provoking as it is confusing.' FT Magazine
'Exuberantly funny voice and ability to lard his stories with details that return, pages later, with multiplied resonance.' Scotsman
'Handler shows great skill in drawing characters and telling their stories. Beguilingly, humorously and at times brilliantly. Definitely worth reading...' Express
‘He's enjoying himself. He's simply taken the tricks out for a joyride and the reader has been invited along.' Sunday Business Post
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Hello. I am Daniel Handler, author of this book.
Did you know that authors often write the summaries of their books that
appear here? You might want to think that the next time you read something
like, "A dazzling page-turner, this novel shows an internationally
acclaimed storyteller at the height of his astonishing powers."
Adverbs is a novel about love - a bunch of different people, in and out of
different kinds of love. An adolescent's first stirrings for his sister's
boyfriend; a doomed, inappropriate tryst between a taxi driver and his
passenger; a high-school crush that falls painfully short of a movie
projected on a screen.
A dazzling page-turner, this novel shows an internationally acclaimed
storyteller at the height of his astonishing powers.
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HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd, New South Wales, 2006
ISBN 10: 0732282349
ISBN 13: 9780732282349
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 'One of our most dazzling literary conjurers shuffles the deck of contemporary consciousness and desire. A thrilling feat of tragic magic.' - Michael Chabon Adverbs marks the return of Daniel Handler to adult fiction as he tackles life's most complicated and compelling noun: love. In a series of intersecting narratives that explore variations of that ineffable feeling, Handler crafts a moving and shifting story exploring the frustrating glory of this most troublesome of emotions. two friends, one dying and one lonely; an adolescent's first homosexual stirrings for his sister's boyfriend; a doomed, enormously inappropriate tryst between a taxi driver and his passenger; a high-school crush that falls painfully short of a movie projected on a grungy screen. Handler's characters experience love in all of its dark, triumphant, devastating and sneaky forms. In Adverbs, Daniel Handler reveals to us how the most universal of themes is also the most unknown. 'With Adverbs, Daniel Handler, who's always been a great stylist, goes ten steps further, to become something like an American Nabokov. He and the Russian man share a rapturous love of words, a quick and delicate wit, a lyrical elegance that makes every single sentence silly with pleasure. On a broader level, Adverbs describes adolescence, friendship and love with such freshness and power that you feel drunk and beaten up but still wanting to leave your own world and enter the one Handler's created. Anyone who lives to read gorgeous writing will want to lick this book and sleep with it between their legs. those who want their books to read like newspapers should read newspapers.' - Dave Eggers Two friends, one dying and one lonely; an adolescent's first homosexual stirrings for his sister's boyfriend, and a high school crush that falls painfully short of a movie projected on a grungy screen. A moving and shifting story, that explores this most troublesome of emotions, love. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780732282349
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