The Imperative Mood
1st Edition
Published on 24. May 2012
17 pages
978-1-84765-887-6 (ISBN)
Description
Whatever floats your boat, go ahead and float it. Do not have large untenable quantities of despair. Do not go to parades. When you feed orphaned wild animals, do not expect them to make it. Be forewarned. Be careful that your genitals do not show outside the strict confines of your underwear. Learn at least three racquet games during your lifetime.
In this brand new short, Padgett Powell takes the reader on a completely new kind of journey. Just as The Interrogative Mood was stubbornly memorable and persistently illuminating, The Imperative Mood is surprising, funny, sneakily cumulative, charming, and artful. As well as just a little bit bossy.
The imperative is darker than the interrogative mood, we learn.
In this brand new short, Padgett Powell takes the reader on a completely new kind of journey. Just as The Interrogative Mood was stubbornly memorable and persistently illuminating, The Imperative Mood is surprising, funny, sneakily cumulative, charming, and artful. As well as just a little bit bossy.
The imperative is darker than the interrogative mood, we learn.
Reviews / Votes
Praise for The Interrogative Mood: 'Is this the most bloody-mindedly brilliant new work of fiction I have read this year? Why? Who's asking? Could you stop that please? -- Steven Poole * Guardian * Lyrical, profound, heartbreaking and fantastically funny, it becomes, as the questions pile up, a compendious and intimate portrait of the questioner * Sunday Times * Gradually enthralls with its kaleidoscopic interrogation of personality, morality and life itself * Sunday Telegraph * An intriguing follow-up to The Interrogative Mood -- Anna Baddeley * Observer *All prices
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Profile Books Ltd
Product notice
Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-84765-887-6 (9781847658876)
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Person
Padgett Powell is a novelist who has taught writing at the University of Florida for over thirty years. His books include his dazzling first novel Edisto and most recentlyThe Interrogative Mood.
