'A dazzling novel.an original work of brilliance' Time Magazine 20010730
Helen DeWitt was born in Maryland, grew up in South America and now lives in Derbyshire. This is her first novel.
"Her style is brilliantly heartless, and cork-dry; original
herself, she is a witty examiner of human and cultural
eccentricity. She is, above all, playful... What grounds all
DeWitt's brilliance and game-playing is the way that she dramatizes
a certain kind of hyperintelligent rationalism and probes its
irregular distribution of blindness and insight...a wonderfully
funny book, but comedy dances near the abyss; the apprehension of
humor's frailty links DeWitt to the tragicomic tradition of
Cervantes, Sterne, and Nabokov" -- James Wood * New Yorker *
"Fiercely intelligent, very funny and unlike anything else I've
ever read" -- Mark Haddon
"A triumph - a genuinely new story, a genuinely new form" -- A. S.
Byatt
"A bold, brilliant book...original both in content and form...
DeWitt's zeal cannot fail to enchant" * Guardian *
"An exhilaratingly literate and playful first novel by a fresh,
electrifying talent. DeWitt goes to the top of the class...her
adventurousness spins out on an epic scale" * New York Times *
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