The Solitary Twin [Paperback]

Harry Mathews's brilliant final work,An imagination and an ingenuity that are often just astonishing.An imagination and an ingenuity that are often just astonishing.A fascinating, discursive swan song that celebrates the power of stories.As the novel circles closer to the grand reveal promised by its title, Mathews toys with the readers 'desire to resolve the irresolute, to conclude the incomplete, to have the crooked made straight.' The result is an undeniably clever parting shot from one of contemporary literatures most playfully challenging writers.One of the most remarkable prose stylists presently writing in English.Posthumous books almost always feel half-formed, coincidental, unpublished for a reason....Comic extravaganza that plays mockingly with every device of fiction.Like Roubaud and Perec, Mathews engineers a funhouse labyrinth in whichguise disfigures guise and the logic that reigns is that of representation.Comic extravaganza that plays mockingly with every device of fiction.