Vanishing Point

From Wittgenstein's Mistress to Reader's Block to Springer's Progress to This Is Not a Novel, he has delighted and amazed readers for decades. And now comes his latest masterwork, Vanishing Point, wherein an elderly writer (identified only as "Author") sets out to transform shoeboxes crammed with notecards into a novel--and in so doing will dazzle us with an astonishing parade of revelations about the trials and calamities and absurdities and often even tragedies of the creative life--and all the while trying his best (he says) to keep himself out of the tale. Naturally he will fail to do the latter, frequently managing to stand aside and yet remaining undeniably central throughout--until he is swept inevitably into the narrative's starting and shattering climax. A novel of death and laughter both--and of extraordinary intellectual richness.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: 01/01/2004
ISBN: 9781593760106
Pages: 191
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.60d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2003 pg. 1375
Booklist 01/01/2004 pg. 824
Library Journal 01/01/2004 pg. 158
Publishers Weekly 01/26/2004 pg. 231
New York Times 02/22/2004 pg. 16
Kirkus Best Books 12/15/2004 pg. 1