{"product_id":"9780061959622","title":"The Interrogative Mood: A Novel?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Richard Ford\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Interrogative Mood \u003c\/em\u003eis 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Mezzanine \u003c\/em\u003eor David Foster Wallace's stories;\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ea 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.\" \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46326218916081,"sku":"9780061959622","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9780061959622_p0.jpg?v=1765794788","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780061959622","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}