Very P - The reckless art of book blurbing
Ghetta Life
ghetta_outta at hotmail.com
Thu May 4 09:44:07 CDT 2006
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/blurbs.html
"Used to be, the most compelling words of any given book were found between
the covers. But lately, I find myself increasingly distracted by the words
on the jacket. If you pick up Adverbs, the latest work of fiction by Daniel
Handler, youll find this fanatical rave from Dave Eggers: Adverbs
describes adolescence, friendship, and love with such freshness and power
that you feel drunk and beaten up, but still want to leave your own world
and enter the one Handlers created. Anyone who lives to read gorgeous
writing will want to lick this book and sleep with it between their legs.
Reading Adverbs, I felt no such impulse. But perhaps thats a personal
shortcoming maybe I dont feel books as intensely as Eggers. At any rate,
he exercises creative licence the way most of us exercise our lungs. The
linchpin of the McSweeneys publishing empire and the author of three books,
Eggers may be the leading advocate of literary hijinks. Take his bestselling
2000 book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Part memoir, part
fictionalization of real events and part annotated text on what meaning the
reader should derive from it all, Eggerss opus was the work of a militant
postmodernist. That weird sensibility has begun to inform Eggerss (many)
blurbs."
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