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The Mayor's Tongue |
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| Book: Paperback | 8.26 x 5.23in | 320 pages | ISBN 9781594483684 | 07 Apr 2009 | Riverhead | 18 - AND UP |
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One of the most original, dazzling, and critically acclaimed debut novels this year.
In this debut novel, hailed by Stephen King as “terrifying, touching, and wildly funny,” the stories of two strangers, Eugene Brentani and Mr. Schmitz, interweave. What unfolds is a bold reinvention of storytelling in which Eugene, a devotee of the reclusive and monstrous author, Constance Eakins, and Mr. Schmitz, who has been receiving ominous letters from an old friend, embark from New York for Italy, where the line between imagination and reality begins to blur and stories take on a life of their own.
“Ambitious, intelligent, hallucinatory, and, most important: heartfelt.”
—Gary Shteyngart
“When Rich writes of his characters, their affections, their impulses and failings, he writes generously and movingly…pointing the way to Nathaniel Rich’s promise as a fiction writer.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Sublime invention.”
—New York Magazine
“Daring, wonderfully weird…as haunting as the reality-collapsing yarns of Paul Auster.”
— Interview
“If you’re a Pynchon or Fowles fan, it’s a novel for you.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Few American fiction debuts in recent years have thumbed their noses at literary convention like Nathaniel Rich’s The Mayor’s Tongue.”
—Time Out New York
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