You&I

Described as'Waiting for Godot on acid', this radiant and enigmatic novel will take you on a journey into thesubconscious. Confounding, experimental fiction for everyone who lovedThe Interrogative Mood.

Padgett Powell writes:'Their conversation we may find it difficult to grasp much like they themselves. Coming to conclusions that don't conclude. To questions that have no answers. To positions that may not be finally so aimless. They disagree to agree. They are smart, not smart; fools, not fools.'Poignant, hilarious, opaque, diamond-clear, this strange little gem is sure to delight the thousands of devotees found by Powell'sThe Interrogative Mood.'I'd like to see some flying dogs.Are there flying dogs?Not that I know of. Seeing some would improve my mood tremendously, though.I suspect it would. Mine too.Cheer us right up, flying dogs.Raining cats and dogs.Like to see cats bouncing off cars.Why'd they call combat air battles"dogfights"?They wanted to see flying dogs too.'

About the Author

Padgett Powell is a novelist who has taught writing at the University of Florida for twenty-five years. His books include his dazzling first novelEdisto and most recentlyThe Interrogative Mood

Reviews

'Utterly intriguing', Hannah Marriott, Grazia

'Powell continues to rebel against convention... displaying a benevolent misanthropy and a juvenile silliness ...Powell holds a mirror up to what we have become and what we have lost, giving voice to a yearning that avoids sentimentality', Metro

'Much like its predecessor, You& I is that most radical of rare beasts: a dazzlingly brilliant, thoroughly readable, properly avant-garde novel', Stuart Hammond, Dazed&Confused

'One of the most interesting things in American writing over the last five years has been Padgett Powell's turn toward a kind of spare, interior, post-postmodern fiction. You could say he's becoming a southern David Markson, but he's too much himself. This book is a rare thing: experimental writing with powerful narrative drive. I finished it feeling quieted--by its melancholic probing--and exhilarated by its style.', John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of Blood Horses and Pulphead

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