{"product_id":"9780811227827","title":"Dewitt, Helen - Some trick: 13 stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten by Dewitt, Helen. Themes include Short stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen Dewitt into the funniest, most yonder dimensions of possibility. Her jumping-off points might be statistics, romance, the art world's piranha tank, games of chance and games of skill, the travails of publishing, or success. \"Look,\" a character begins to explain, laying out some gambit reasonably enough, even if facing a world of boomeranging counterfactuals, situations spinning out to their utmost logical extremes, and Rube Goldberg-like moving parts, where things prove \"more complicated than they had first appeared\" and \"at 3 a.m. the circumstances seem to attenuate.\" In various ways, each tale carries Dewitt's signature poker-face lament regarding the near-impossibility of the life of the mind when one is made to pay to have the time for it, in a world so sadly \"taken up with all sorts of paraphernalia superfluous, not to say impedimental, to ratiocination.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll books at Vastela are pre-owned. Condition varies from good to near-new. No book is sold in unacceptable condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vastela Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58944064455030,"sku":null,"price":12.9,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/7144\/1981\/files\/9780811227827.jpg?v=1791543184","url":"https:\/\/www.vastelabooks.com\/products\/9780811227827","provider":"Vastela Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}