If Tarantino and Lynch fans, Lost and Twilight Zone viewers read deeply, then Laird Hunt would be their hero. His writing is full of sincerity, yet stylishly opaque, and his cultural and historical references are both pop and obscure. Like Auster and Lethem before him, Hunt's reputation has ignited first in Europe and, like the work of Umberto Eco and Arturo Perez-Reverte, this novel is steeped in mystery, art, madness, and allusions to the contemporary consequences of historical decisions. He is a literary genre-bender of ...
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If Tarantino and Lynch fans, Lost and Twilight Zone viewers read deeply, then Laird Hunt would be their hero. His writing is full of sincerity, yet stylishly opaque, and his cultural and historical references are both pop and obscure. Like Auster and Lethem before him, Hunt's reputation has ignited first in Europe and, like the work of Umberto Eco and Arturo Perez-Reverte, this novel is steeped in mystery, art, madness, and allusions to the contemporary consequences of historical decisions. He is a literary genre-bender of the first order and The Exquisite should solidify his reputation both here and abroad. Hunt's work is already being taught in contemporary fiction classes and this book should find its way onto a number of course adoption lists.
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Welcome aboard Laird Hunt trippy ride of a novel. A man who is living post-9/11 has supposedly gotten himself mixed up with an older gent named Mr. Kindt and a woman named Tulip, who have recruited him to help them run a little agency where people pay you to fake-murder them. But wait, that's only the icing on the Insane Cake. Turns out that the guy might actually be a patient in a mental ward with a fellow patient named Kindt and is being treated by a Dr. Tulp. Which reality is real? You be the judge! While the reader has to seriously be out to lunch while reading this to not see what the answer is going to be, Hunt's writing style leads you through his sometimes bleak, some times frantic novel with enough flourish that the solution is really not the point.
