The Mayor's Tongue - Softcover

Rich, Nathaniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 159448368X ISBN 13: 9781594483684

Publisher: Riverhead Books, 2009

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Nathaniel Rich has published essays and criticism in The New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, The Nation, The New Republic, and Slate. He is an editor at The Paris Review.

Review:

aAmbitious, intelligent, hallucinatory, and, most important: heartfelt.a
aGary Shteyngart
aWhen Rich writes of his characters, their affections, their impulses and failings, he writes generously and movinglya]pointing the way to Nathaniel Richas promise as a fiction writer.a
a"The New York Times Book Review"
aSublime invention.a
a"New York Magazine"
aDaring, wonderfully weirda]as haunting as the reality-collapsing yarns of Paul Auster.a
a "Interview"
aIf youare a Pynchon or Fowles fan, itas a novel for you.a
a"San Francisco Chronicle"
aFew American fiction debuts in recent years have thumbed their noses at literary convention like Nathaniel Richas "The Mayoras Tongue,"a
a"Time Out New York"

?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"

About this edition

• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 159448368X
• ISBN 13: 9781594483684
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320