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Paperback. Condition: New. A major literary event over two decades in the making, Your Name Here marks the seismic return of Helen DeWitt (The Last Samurai), and will introduce readers to the riveting voice of Ilya Gridneff.A book of unparalleled scope and vision, Your Name Here is a spectacular honeycomb of books-within-books. In this death-defying feat of ambition, collaborators Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff weave together America's "War on Terror," countless years of literary history, authorial sleight of hand, Scientology, dream analysis, multiple languages, emails, images, graphs, into something wondrous and unique.A metafictional Pygmalion story reminiscent of Charlie Kaufman's Oscar-nominated Adaptation, or Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler; Your Name Here is a rare work of art that captures the process of becoming itself. A reminder that a masterpiece and a doomed voyage look the same at the start.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. A major literary event over two decades in the making, Your Name Here marks the seismic return of Helen DeWitt (The Last Samurai), and will introduce readers to the riveting voice of Ilya Gridneff.A book of unparalleled scope and vision, Your Name Here is a spectacular honeycomb of books-within-books. In this death-defying feat of ambition, collaborators Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff weave together America's "War on Terror," countless years of literary history, authorial sleight of hand, Scientology, dream analysis, multiple languages, emails, images, graphs, into something wondrous and unique.A metafictional Pygmalion story reminiscent of Charlie Kaufman's Oscar-nominated Adaptation, or Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler; Your Name Here is a rare work of art that captures the process of becoming itself. A reminder that a masterpiece and a doomed voyage look the same at the start.…

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 235 pages. Published in late 2007, issue 6 of n+1 magazine, titled "Mainstream," analyzed contemporary capitalism, book reviewing, and featured Wesley Yang's essay on the Virginia Tech shootings. The issue included contributions from Helen DeWitt and Caleb Crain, (U.P.). …

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A major literary event over two decades in the making, Your Name Here marks the seismic return of Helen DeWitt (The Last Samurai), and will introduce readers to the riveting voice of Ilya Gridneff.A book of unparalleled scope and vision, Your Name Here is a spectacular honeycomb of books-within-books. In this death-defying feat of ambition, collaborators Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff weave together Americas 'War on Terror', countless years of literary history, authorial sleight of hand, Scientology, dream analysis, multiple languages, emails, images, graphs, into something wondrous and unique.A metafictional Pygmalion story reminiscent of Charlie Kaufmans Oscar-nominated Adaptation, or Italo Calvinos If on a winters night a traveler; Your Name Here is a rare work of art that captures the process of becoming itself. A reminder that a masterpiece and a doomed voyage look the same at the start.'A work of geniusWhat began as a playful collaboration became, like most of DeWitts work, weirder, riskier and more ambitious. After at least 20 drafts and countless revisions, it morphed into a 600-page work that resists categorisation and almost defies description.' The New York Times Magazine'An audacious metafiction.Readers will be left breathless.' Publishers Weekly, Starred Review'An ouroboros and a big one at that of a postmodern yarn that threatens to swallow itself at any moment.At once bewildering and beguiling, and a groaning-table feast of words.' Kirkus Reviews'DeWitt is a brilliant risk-taker. I truly have no idea what to expect.' The New York Times, '10 Things Were Excited About This Fall''Refreshing[ly] bold.The structure produces opportunities for tension and momentum, winding around a convergence in which everything feels as if it is just around the corner.' Los Angeles Review of Books'This is hit-and-run, take-no-prisoners writing.' Times Literary Supplement'Although the book may appear, to begin with, to be plotless, it turns out to be tightly organised: a Godard-like enfilade of shaftings, a frontispiece-of-Leviathan-type portrait of the world as a great Biz made up of millions of little bizzes. Your Name Here is a novel that doesnt really believe in novels. The writing is delightfully shameless, dishevelled and dissolute; globalised and pornified and digitised somehow, bit after bit after bit.' The London Review of Books'Peerless.' Lauren Oyler, author of Fake Accounts'Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneffs Your Name Here has been the novel of the century for almost two decades, despite almost no one having read it. Now, at long last, Your Name Here is here. Not a rumor, not an excerpt, not a PDF: this is the real thing a hilarious, insatiably imaginative meta-meta-meta-novel that takes every risk and plays every card and captures, maybe like no other novel, the internets jarring dislocations and formal possibilities. Still wildly ahead of its time, Your Name Here contains a multitude of voices so funny, so dark, so alive to every contingency that I wish it were twice as long. What a blast!' Mark Krotov, coeditor of n+1 and The Intellectual Situation Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A major literary event over two decades in the making, Your Name Here marks the seismic return of Helen DeWitt (The Last Samurai), and will introduce readers to the riveting voice of Ilya Gridneff.A book of unparalleled scope and vision, Your Name Here is a spectacular honeycomb of books-within-books. In this death-defying feat of ambition, collaborators Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff weave together America's 'War on Terror', countless years of literary history, authorial sleight of hand, Scientology, dream analysis, multiple languages, emails, images, graphs, into something wondrous and unique.A metafictional Pygmalion story reminiscent of Charlie Kaufman's Oscar-nominated Adaptation, or Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler; Your Name Here is a rare work of art that captures the process of becoming itself. A reminder that a masterpiece and a doomed voyage look the same at the start.'A work of genius.What began as a playful collaboration became, like most of DeWitt's work, weirder, riskier and more ambitious. After at least 20 drafts and countless revisions, it morphed into a 600-page work that resists categorisation and almost defies description.' The New York Times Magazine'An audacious metafiction.Readers will be left breathless.' Publishers Weekly,Starred Review'An ouroboros and a big one at that of a postmodern yarn that threatens to swallow itself at any moment.At once bewildering and beguiling, and a groaning-table feast of words.' Kirkus Reviews'DeWitt is a brilliant risk-taker. I truly have no idea what to expect.' The New York Times, '10 Things We're Excited About This Fall''Refreshing[ly] bold.The structure produces opportunities for tension and momentum, winding around a convergence in which everything feels as if it is just around the corner.' Los Angeles Review of Books'This is hit-and-run, take-no-prisoners writing.' Times Literary Supplement'Although the book may appear, to begin with, to be plotless, it turns out to be tightly organised: a Godard-like enfilade of shaftings, a frontispiece-of-Leviathan-type portrait of the world as a great 'Biz' made up of millions of little bizzes. Your Name Hereis a novel that doesn't really believe in novels. The writing is delightfully shameless, dishevelled and dissolute; globalised and pornified and digitised somehow, bit after bit after bit.' The London Review of Books'Peerless.' Lauren Oyler, author ofFake Accounts'Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff'sYour Name Herehas been the novel of the century for almost two decades, despite almost no one having read it. Now, at long last,Your Name Hereis here. Not a rumor, not an excerpt, not a PDF: this is the real thing a hilarious, insatiably imaginative meta-meta-meta-novel that takes every risk and plays every card and captures, maybe like no other novel, the internet's jarring dislocations and formal possibilities. Still wildly ahead of its time,Your Name Herecontains a multitude of voices so funny, so dark, so alive to every contingency that I wish it were twice as long. What a blast!' Mark Krotov, coeditor ofn+1andThe Intellectual Situation Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: New. A major literary event over two decades in the making, Your Name Here marks the seismic return of Helen DeWitt (The Last Samurai), and will introduce readers to the riveting voice of Ilya Gridneff.A book of unparalleled scope and vision, Your Name Here is a spectacular honeycomb of books-within-books. In this death-defying feat of ambition, collaborators Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff weave together America's "War on Terror," countless years of literary history, authorial sleight of hand, Scientology, dream analysis, multiple languages, emails, images, graphs, into something wondrous and unique.A metafictional Pygmalion story reminiscent of Charlie Kaufman's Oscar-nominated Adaptation, or Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler; Your Name Here is a rare work of art that captures the process of becoming itself. A reminder that a masterpiece and a doomed voyage look the same at the start.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. A major literary event over two decades in the making, Your Name Here marks the seismic return of Helen DeWitt (The Last Samurai), and will introduce readers to the riveting voice of Ilya Gridneff.A book of unparalleled scope and vision, Your Name Here is a spectacular honeycomb of books-within-books. In this death-defying feat of ambition, collaborators Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff weave together America's "War on Terror," countless years of literary history, authorial sleight of hand, Scientology, dream analysis, multiple languages, emails, images, graphs, into something wondrous and unique.A metafictional Pygmalion story reminiscent of Charlie Kaufman's Oscar-nominated Adaptation, or Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler; Your Name Here is a rare work of art that captures the process of becoming itself. A reminder that a masterpiece and a doomed voyage look the same at the start.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A major literary event over two decades in the making, Your Name Here marks the seismic return of Helen DeWitt (The Last Samurai), and will introduce readers to the riveting voice of Ilya Gridneff.A book of unparalleled scope and vision, Your Name Here is a spectacular honeycomb of books-within-books. In this death-defying feat of ambition, collaborators Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff weave together Americas 'War on Terror', countless years of literary history, authorial sleight of hand, Scientology, dream analysis, multiple languages, emails, images, graphs, into something wondrous and unique.A metafictional Pygmalion story reminiscent of Charlie Kaufmans Oscar-nominated Adaptation, or Italo Calvinos If on a winters night a traveler; Your Name Here is a rare work of art that captures the process of becoming itself. A reminder that a masterpiece and a doomed voyage look the same at the start.'A work of geniusWhat began as a playful collaboration became, like most of DeWitts work, weirder, riskier and more ambitious. After at least 20 drafts and countless revisions, it morphed into a 600-page work that resists categorisation and almost defies description.' The New York Times Magazine'An audacious metafiction.Readers will be left breathless.' Publishers Weekly, Starred Review'An ouroboros and a big one at that of a postmodern yarn that threatens to swallow itself at any moment.At once bewildering and beguiling, and a groaning-table feast of words.' Kirkus Reviews'DeWitt is a brilliant risk-taker. I truly have no idea what to expect.' The New York Times, '10 Things Were Excited About This Fall''Refreshing[ly] bold.The structure produces opportunities for tension and momentum, winding around a convergence in which everything feels as if it is just around the corner.' Los Angeles Review of Books'This is hit-and-run, take-no-prisoners writing.' Times Literary Supplement'Although the book may appear, to begin with, to be plotless, it turns out to be tightly organised: a Godard-like enfilade of shaftings, a frontispiece-of-Leviathan-type portrait of the world as a great Biz made up of millions of little bizzes. Your Name Here is a novel that doesnt really believe in novels. The writing is delightfully shameless, dishevelled and dissolute; globalised and pornified and digitised somehow, bit after bit after bit.' The London Review of Books'Peerless.' Lauren Oyler, author of Fake Accounts'Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneffs Your Name Here has been the novel of the century for almost two decades, despite almost no one having read it. Now, at long last, Your Name Here is here. Not a rumor, not an excerpt, not a PDF: this is the real thing a hilarious, insatiably imaginative meta-meta-meta-novel that takes every risk and plays every card and captures, maybe like no other novel, the internets jarring dislocations and formal possibilities. Still wildly ahead of its time, Your Name Here contains a multitude of voices so funny, so dark, so alive to every contingency that I wish it were twice as long. What a blast!' Mark Krotov, coeditor of n+1 and The Intellectual Situation This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…