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The
Impossibly
LAIRD
HUNT
Firecracker Alternative Book Award Shortlist
Funny,
smart, and perfectly pitched, Laird Hunt's extraordinary
debut follows the amusing but deadly debacles of its
narrator, an anonymous secret operative embroiled in
the dark underworld of transnational organized crime.
When he botches an assignment for the clandestine organization
that employs him, everyone in his life - including his
new girlfriend - is revealed to be either true-blue
or double operative. As he frugally doles out clues
about his dangerous work, the reader inevitably becomes
both confidante and fellow gumshoe. The narrator's final
assignment - to identify his own assassin - dismantles
the reader's own analysis of the evidence and reveals
that things are not always what they seem.
With
the literary inventiveness of Paul Auster and the dark
absurdity of Franz Kafka, The Impossibly is a fresh,
daring love story set in a world of crime and deep confusion,
told by an unreliable, obfuscating, and not-unhumorous
individual, who is more interested in love than in crime
and is clearly ill-equipped for both.
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