{"product_id":"2940169700510","title":"Some Trick: Thirteen Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAt last a new book: a baker's dozen of stories all with Helen DeWitt's razor-sharp genius.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen DeWitt into the funniest, most yonder dimensions of possibility. Her jumping-off points might be statistics, romance, the art world's piranha tank, games of chance and games of skill, the travails of publishing, or success. \"Look,\" a character begins to explain, laying out some gambit reasonably enough, even if facing a world of boomeranging counterfactuals, situations spinning out to their utmost logical extremes, and Rube Goldberg-like moving parts, where things prove \"more complicated than they had first appeared\" and \"at 3 a.m. the circumstances seem to attenuate.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn various ways, each tale carries DeWitt's signature poker-face lament regarding the near-impossibility of the life of the mind when one is made to pay to have the time for it, in a world so sadly \"taken up with all sorts of paraphernalia superfluous, not to say impediment, to ratiocination.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brilliance Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47169210745072,"sku":"2940169700510","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169700510_p0.jpg?v=1763691359","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169700510","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}