When a hit man takes a sabbatical to focus on love, his bosses aren’t happy in an award-winning debut novel that earns comparison to Paul Auster and Kafka. When the anonymous narrator botches an assignment from the clandestine organization that employs him, everyone in his life becomes a participant in his punishment. In the end, he is called out of retirement for a final assignment: to seek and identify his own assassin. A supple, near-surreal noir thriller that is “innovative, comic, bizarre and beautiful, The Impossibly reads as if Donald Barthelme were channeling Alain Robbe-Grillet, Samuel Beckett, Ben Marcus, and reruns of Get Smart” (Time Out New York). This new edition includes an introduction by Percival Everett, an afterword by the author, and the novella, “Green Metal Door, ” the first edition’s “lost chapter.”
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction by Percival Everett
Afterword by Laird Hunt
Over de auteur
Called “one of the most talented young writers on the American scene today” by Paul Auster, Laird Hunt is the author of four genre-bending novels:
The Impossibly,
The Exquisite,
Indiana, Indiana and
Ray of the Star. Born in Singapore and educated at Indiana University and The Sorbonne in Paris, Hunt has also lived in Tokyo, London, The Hague, New York City, and on an Indiana farm. A former press officer at the United Nations and current faculty member at the University of Denver, he now lives in Boulder, Colorado.
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