Ebook {Epub PDF} TheMystery.doc by Matthew McIntosh

One still hopes it won’t be fourteen years until Matthew McIntosh’s next one, though there is much here to carry one for a good, long time.” Rick Simonson, Elliott Bay Book Company “ www.doorway.ru plumbs life's absurdities and explores its heartbreak, playing with form and convention, teasing meaning and pathos from the unlikeliest places.  · “Glued precariously together from the documentary fragments of a shattered culture and a fractured psyche, as with Eliot’s The Waste Land, Matthew McIntosh’s huge and riveting www.doorway.ru stakes out its territory in the unbroken ground of a new and unsettling American century. Haunted the same way that contemporary life is haunted—by snapshots and forgotten emails; scraps Brand: Grove/Atlantic, Inc. About the Book. Funny, highly inventive, and deeply moving, www.doorway.ru is a vast, shape-shifting literary novel that reads like a page-turner. It’s a comedy, a tragedy, a big book about America. It’s unlike anything you’ve read before.

"www.doorway.ru may seem capacious but is actually sly, shy, and precise, and Matthew McIntosh is ambitious in the good sense: he attempts something new, with new vitality, and at that, absolutely succeeds."―Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers and Telex from Cuba. "www.doorway.ru plumb life's absurdities and explores its heartbreak, playing with form and convention, teasing meaning and even pathos from the unlikeliest places. I can think of no other novel that simultaneously pushes the boundaries and moves the soul like Matthew McIntosh's www.doorway.ru"―Ezra Goldstein, Community Bookstore. www.doorway.ru Matthew McIntosh. Grove, $35 (1,p) ISBN McIntosh's second book (after Well) is 14 years in the making, an audacious, sprawling, messy, and aptly titled.

“www.doorway.ru may seem capacious but is actually sly, shy, and precise, and Matthew McIntosh is ambitious in the good sense: he attempts something new, with new vitality, and at that, absolutely succeeds.” Rachel Kushner, author of Telex from Cuba About the Author. Matthew McIntosh is the author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller Well. He lives with his wife on the West Coast. About the Book. Funny, highly inventive, and deeply moving, www.doorway.ru is a vast, shape-shifting literary novel that reads like a page-turner. It’s a comedy, a tragedy, a big book about America. It’s unlike anything you’ve read before. The workings of memory is another, and in this way www.doorway.ru resembles In Search of Lost Time. McIntosh is a slacker Proust, writing about the underclass of Spokane rather than the upper classes of Paris as he attempts to convert memories and experience into art.