Busy Monsters
Author: William Giraldi
Category: Other2
Published: 2011
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Read Online"The best literary present . . . has a delicate sweetness that shows through at just the right moments."—Ron Charles, Washington Post Book WorldEchoing a narrative line that includes Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller, William Giraldi's Busy Monsters has been hailed as one of the most exciting fiction debuts in years. Penned with a linguistic bravado that explores the diaphanous line between fiction and fact, this "very funny, very inventive début novel" (The New Yorker) has at last revived the great American picaresque tradition.