Interrogative Mood The

“If Duchamp or maybe Magritte wrote a novel (and maybe they did. Did they?) it might look something like this remarkable little book of Padgett Powell’s.”—Richard FordThe Interrogative Mood is a wildly inventive jazzy meditation on life and language by the novelist that Ian Frazier hails as “one of the best writers in America and one of the funniest too.” A novel composed entirely of questions it is perhaps the most audacious literary high-wire act since Nicholson Baker’s The Mezzanine or David Foster Wallace’s stories;a playful and profound book that as Jonathan Safran Foer says “will sear the unlucky volumes shelved on either side of it. How it doesn’t itself combust in flames is a mystery to me.”