Busy Monsters: A Novel
Aug 2011 · W. W. Norton & Company
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"The best literary present . . . has a delicate sweetness that shows through at just the right moments."—Ron Charles, Washington Post Book World Echoing a narrative line that includes Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller, William Giraldi's Busy Monsters has been hailed as one of the most exciting fiction debuts in years. Penned with a linguistic bravado that explores the diaphanous line between fiction and fact, this "very funny, very inventive début novel" ( The New Yorker) has at last revived the great American picaresque tradition.
"The best literary present . . . has a delicate sweetness that shows through at just the right moments."—Ron Charles, Washington Post Book World Echoing a narrative line that includes Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller, William Giraldi's Busy Monsters has been hailed as one of the most exciting fict...
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William Giraldi is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Busy Monsters and Hold the Dark; the memoir The Hero's Body; and a collection of criticism, American Audacity. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is master lecturer in the Writing Program at Boston University.
William Giraldi is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Busy Monsters and Hold the Dark; the memoir The Hero's Body; and a collection of criticism, American Audacity. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is master lecturer in the Writing Program at Boston University.
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