Antkind
Book description
The bold and boundlessly original debut novel from the Oscar (R)-winning screenwriter of Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Synecdoche, New York.
'Riotously funny' New York Times 'Just as loopy and clever as his movies' Washington PostB. Rosenberger Rosenberg, neurotic and underappreciated film critic (failed…
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Kaufmann is primarily known as a brilliant, original screenwriter responsible for such mind-bending movies as Being John Malkovich and The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. But here he directs his prodigious talent to a novel, if that is the right word for this amazing literary achievement.
The plot itself almost doesn’t matter, as one starts to lose the thread of it after a while as it meanders into almost phantasmagorical places: it’s the sheer blinding brilliance of the prose itself, invoking such words as “masterful” and “genius,” along with just a mind-blowing amount of comic hilarity.
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