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Reinhardt's Garden
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2019
- ISBN
- 9781566895620
- Book Title
- Reinhardt's Garden
- Publisher
- Coffee House Press
- Item Length
- 7.7 in
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Satire
- Item Weight
- 6 Oz
- Item Width
- 5 in
- Number of Pages
- 168 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Coffee House Press
ISBN-10
1566895626
ISBN-13
9781566895620
eBay Product ID (ePID)
28038636662
Product Key Features
Book Title
Reinhardt's Garden
Number of Pages
168 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Topic
Satire
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
6 Oz
Item Length
7.7 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2018-053577
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Jacov Reinhardt and his faithful assistant roam South America in a quixotic search for the essence of melancholy--an enterprise that makes Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, their rough contemporary, come off as a levelheaded pragmatist. To follow Reinhardt, fueled by amounts of cocaine not even Sigmund Freud could have managed, is to walk into a fascinating literary maze that spans from Ulrich Schmidl's chronicles to the decadent movements in turn-of-the-century Europe and Latin America. Melancholy has never felt more euphoric than in Mark Haber's breathless paragraph-long novel." --Hernan Diaz "In prose as sure as a poison-laced dart, Mark Haber takes the reader on a delirious journey to the heart of melancholy." --Sjón "An adventurous journey into the country of melancholy. A fascinating dissection of human vulnerability." --Guadalupe Nettel "Reinhardt's Garden is one of those perfect books that looks small and exotic and melancholic from the outside but, once in, is immense and exultant in the best possible way. Think Amulet by Roberto Bolaño, think Nightwood by Djuna Barnes, think Train Dreams by Denis Johnson, think Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, think Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto, think The Loser by Thomas Bernhard. Think." --Rodrigo Fresán PRAISE FOR MARK HABER "[Mark Haber's] infinite, fast-paced energy is transparent in the way these stories are constructed. There is no room for awkward silence or meaningless descriptions; everything fits as in a well-told joke that builds on its own momentum. His prose maintains not only a rhythm that seems like a continued punch-line but when it finally arrives at a safe landing place it delivers a terrible reality: the absurdity of failure in his characters' conditions of possibility tells us way more than what we expected. It is humbling and depressing, all at once." --Bruno Ríos, Argonáutica, "Jacov Reinhardt and his faithful assistant roam South America in a quixotic search for the essence of melancholy--an enterprise that makes Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, their rough contemporary, come off as a levelheaded pragmatist. To follow Reinhardt, fueled by amounts of cocaine not even Sigmund Freud could have managed, is to walk into a fascinating literary maze that spans from Ulrich Schmidl's chronicles to the decadent movements in turn-of-the-century Europe and Latin America. Melancholy has never felt more euphoric than in Mark Haber's breathless paragraph-long novel." --Hernan Diaz "Evokes Gertrude Stein, contemporary European and South American writers like Matthias Énard, Roberto Bolaño, and César Aira, with the Quixotic atmosphere of Werner Herzog films like Fitzcarraldo...A strange but lavishly imagined tale of a hard-to-describe feeling." --Kirkus "An exhilarating fever dream about the search for the secret of melancholy . . . Haber's dizzying vision dextrously leads readers right into the melancholic heart of darkness." --Publishers Weekly "Haber, who has been called 'one of the most influential yet low-key of tastemakers in the book world,' is about to raise it up a level with the debut of his novel." --The Millions "In prose as sure as a poison-laced dart, Mark Haber takes the reader on a delirious journey to the heart of melancholy." --Sjón "An adventurous journey into the country of melancholy. A fascinating dissection of human vulnerability." --Guadalupe Nettel "Reinhardt's Garden is one of those perfect books that looks small and exotic and melancholic from the outside but, once in, is immense and exultant in the best possible way. Think Amulet by Roberto Bolaño, think Nightwood by Djuna Barnes, think Train Dreams by Denis Johnson, think Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, think Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto, think The Loser by Thomas Bernhard. Think." --Rodrigo Fresán "It's official: [Mark Haber]'s novel about melancholy is a laugh riot. Narrated by the devoted assistant of pseudo-intellectual Jacov Reinhardt, the reader follows along for their increasingly misbegotten, cocaine-fueled adventures across Europe and South America. Told in one long, feverish paragraph with sentences that surprise at nearly every turn, Reinhardt's Garden is a gorgeous, joyful, tiny epic. I loved it, and more importantly it got me out of yet another reading rut. Preorder this bad boy from an indie bookstore or [Coffee House Press] please!" --Annie Metclaf, Magers and Quinn Booksellers PRAISE FOR MARK HABER "[Mark Haber's] infinite, fast-paced energy is transparent in the way these stories are constructed. There is no room for awkward silence or meaningless descriptions; everything fits as in a well-told joke that builds on its own momentum. His prose maintains not only a rhythm that seems like a continued punch-line but when it finally arrives at a safe landing place it delivers a terrible reality: the absurdity of failure in his characters' conditions of possibility tells us way more than what we expected. It is humbling and depressing, all at once." --Bruno Ríos, Argonáutica, "Jacov Reinhardt and his faithful assistant roam South America in a quixotic search for the essence of melancholy--an enterprise that makes Werner Herzog''s Fitzcarraldo, their rough contemporary, come off as a levelheaded pragmatist. To follow Reinhardt, fueled by amounts of cocaine not even Sigmund Freud could have managed, is to walk into a fascinating literary maze that spans from Ulrich Schmidl''s chronicles to the decadent movements in turn-of-the-century Europe and Latin America. Melancholy has never felt more euphoric than in Mark Haber''s breathless paragraph-long novel." --Hernan Diaz "Evokes Gertrude Stein, contemporary European and South American writers like Matthias Énard, Roberto Bolaño, and César Aira, with the Quixotic atmosphere of Werner Herzog films like Fitzcarraldo...A strange but lavishly imagined tale of a hard-to-describe feeling." --Kirkus "An exhilarating fever dream about the search for the secret of melancholy. . . . Haber''s dizzying vision dextrously leads readers right into the melancholic heart of darkness." --Publishers Weekly &lds"Heart of Darkness viewed in a fun house mirror."Haber, who has been called ''one of the most influential yet low-key of tastemakers in the book world,'' is about to raise it up a level with the debut of his novel." --The Millions "At times we can imagine Haber to be a Latin American writer. This subtle yet brilliant act of mimicry is perhaps the author''s intention all along." --BOMB Magazine &lds"The cynicism of Haber''s book is tempered with a sweetness that gives it a lovely balance. . . . an innovative piece of fiction.&rdsquo--Houston Chronicle "Hilarious and thrilling. . . . this novel may look like something new, but it reads like that timeless treat, a rollicking good yarn." --Star Tribune "There is a strange, beautiful aesthetic in the spun thread of tightly, smoothly laminated prose. . . . to accomplish this art in narration, and Haber has, is masterful, touching on genius." --Lone Star Literary Life "In prose as sure as a poison-laced dart, Mark Haber takes the reader on a delirious journey to the heart of melancholy." --Sjón "An adventurous journey into the country of melancholy. A fascinating dissection of human vulnerability." --Guadalupe Nettel "Reinhardt''s Garden is one of those perfect books that looks small and exotic and melancholic from the outside but, once in, is immense and exultant in the best possible way. Think Amulet by Roberto Bolaño, think Nightwood by Djuna Barnes, think Train Dreams by Denis Johnson, think Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, think Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto, think The Loser by Thomas Bernhard. Think." --Rodrigo Fresán "It''s official: [Mark Haber]''s novel about melancholy is a laugh riot. Narrated by the devoted assistant of pseudo-intellectual Jacov Reinhardt, the reader follows along for their increasingly misbegotten, cocaine-fueled adventures across Europe and South America. Told in one long, feverish paragraph with sentences that surprise at nearly every turn, Reinhardt''s Garden is a gorgeous, joyful, tiny epic. I loved it, and more importantly it got me out of yet another reading rut. Preorder this bad boy from an indie bookstore or [Coffee House Press] please!" --Annie Metclaf, Magers and Quinn Booksellers PRAISE FOR MARK HABER "[Mark Haber''s] infinite, fast-paced energy is transparent in the way these stories are constructed. There is no room for awkward silence or meaningless descriptions; everything fits as in a well-told joke that builds on its own momentum. His prose maintains not only a rhythm that seems like a continued punch-line but when it finally arrives at a safe landing place it delivers a terrible reality: the absurdity of failure in his characters'' conditions of possibility tells us way more than what we expected. It is humbling and depressing, all at once." --Bruno Ríos, Argonáutica, "Jacov Reinhardt and his faithful assistant roam South America in a quixotic search for the essence of melancholy--an enterprise that makes Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, their rough contemporary, come off as a levelheaded pragmatist. To follow Reinhardt, fueled by amounts of cocaine not even Sigmund Freud could have managed, is to walk into a fascinating literary maze that spans from Ulrich Schmidl's chronicles to the decadent movements in turn-of-the-century Europe and Latin America. Melancholy has never felt more euphoric than in Mark Haber's breathless paragraph-long novel." --Hernan Diaz "Evokes Gertrude Stein, contemporary European and South American writers like Matthias Énard, Roberto Bolaño, and César Aira, with the Quixotic atmosphere of Werner Herzog films like Fitzcarraldo...A strange but lavishly imagined tale of a hard-to-describe feeling." --Kirkus "Haber, who has been called 'one of the most influential yet low-key of tastemakers in the book world,' is about to raise it up a level with the debut of his novel." --The Millions "In prose as sure as a poison-laced dart, Mark Haber takes the reader on a delirious journey to the heart of melancholy." --Sjón "An adventurous journey into the country of melancholy. A fascinating dissection of human vulnerability." --Guadalupe Nettel "Reinhardt's Garden is one of those perfect books that looks small and exotic and melancholic from the outside but, once in, is immense and exultant in the best possible way. Think Amulet by Roberto Bolaño, think Nightwood by Djuna Barnes, think Train Dreams by Denis Johnson, think Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, think Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto, think The Loser by Thomas Bernhard. Think." --Rodrigo Fresán "It's official: [Mark Haber]'s novel about melancholy is a laugh riot. Narrated by the devoted assistant of pseudo-intellectual Jacov Reinhardt, the reader follows along for their increasingly misbegotten, cocaine-fueled adventures across Europe and South America. Told in one long, feverish paragraph with sentences that surprise at nearly every turn, Reinhardt's Garden is a gorgeous, joyful, tiny epic. I loved it, and more importantly it got me out of yet another reading rut. Preorder this bad boy from an indie bookstore or [Coffee House Press] please!" --Annie Metclaf, Magers and Quinn Booksellers PRAISE FOR MARK HABER "[Mark Haber's] infinite, fast-paced energy is transparent in the way these stories are constructed. There is no room for awkward silence or meaningless descriptions; everything fits as in a well-told joke that builds on its own momentum. His prose maintains not only a rhythm that seems like a continued punch-line but when it finally arrives at a safe landing place it delivers a terrible reality: the absurdity of failure in his characters' conditions of possibility tells us way more than what we expected. It is humbling and depressing, all at once." --Bruno Ríos, Argonáutica, "Jacov Reinhardt and his faithful assistant roam South America in a quixotic search for the essence of melancholy--an enterprise that makes Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, their rough contemporary, come off as a levelheaded pragmatist. To follow Reinhardt, fueled by amounts of cocaine not even Sigmund Freud could have managed, is to walk into a fascinating literary maze that spans from Ulrich Schmidl's chronicles to the decadent movements in turn-of-the-century Europe and Latin America. Melancholy has never felt more euphoric than in Mark Haber's breathless paragraph-long novel." --Hernan Diaz "Reinhardt's Garden is one of those perfect books that looks small and exotic and melancholic from the outside but, once in, is immense and exultant in the best possible way. Think Amulet by Roberto Bolaño, think Nightwood by Djuna Barnes, think Train Dreams by Denis Johnson, think Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, think Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto, think The Loser by Thomas Bernhard. Think." --Rodrigo Fresán "In prose as sure as a poison-laced dart, Mark Haber takes the reader on a delirious journey to the heart of melancholy." --Sjón PRAISE FOR MARK HABER "[Mark Haber's] infinite, fast-paced energy is transparent in the way these stories are constructed. There is no room for awkward silence or meaningless descriptions; everything fits as in a well-told joke that builds on its own momentum. His prose maintains not only a rhythm that seems like a continued punch-line but when it finally arrives at a safe landing place it delivers a terrible reality: the absurdity of failure in his characters' conditions of possibility tells us way more than what we expected. It is humbling and depressing, all at once." --Bruno Ríos, Argonáutica, "Jacov Reinhardt and his faithful assistant roam South America in a quixotic search for the essence of melancholy--an enterprise that makes Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, their rough contemporary, come off as a levelheaded pragmatist. To follow Reinhardt, fueled by amounts of cocaine not even Sigmund Freud could have managed, is to walk into a fascinating literary maze that spans from Ulrich Schmidl's chronicles to the decadent movements in turn-of-the-century Europe and Latin America. Melancholy has never felt more euphoric than in Mark Haber's breathless paragraph-long novel." --Hernan Diaz "Evokes Gertrude Stein, contemporary European and South American writers like Matthias Énard, Roberto Bolaño, and César Aira, with the Quixotic atmosphere of Werner Herzog films like Fitzcarraldo...A strange but lavishly imagined tale of a hard-to-describe feeling." --Kirkus "An exhilarating fever dream about the search for the secret of melancholy . . . Haber's dizzying vision dextrously leads readers right into the melancholic heart of darkness." --Publishers Weekly &lds"Heart of Darkness viewed in a fun house mirror."Haber, who has been called 'one of the most influential yet low-key of tastemakers in the book world,' is about to raise it up a level with the debut of his novel." --The Millions ". . . at times we can imagine Haber to be a Latin American writer. This subtle yet brilliant act of mimicry is perhaps the author's intention all along. . . "--BOMB Magazine &lds"The cynicism of Haber's book is tempered with a sweetness that gives it a lovely balance. . .an innovative piece of fiction.&rdsquo--Houston Chronicle "In prose as sure as a poison-laced dart, Mark Haber takes the reader on a delirious journey to the heart of melancholy." --Sjón "An adventurous journey into the country of melancholy. A fascinating dissection of human vulnerability." --Guadalupe Nettel "Reinhardt's Garden is one of those perfect books that looks small and exotic and melancholic from the outside but, once in, is immense and exultant in the best possible way. Think Amulet by Roberto Bolaño, think Nightwood by Djuna Barnes, think Train Dreams by Denis Johnson, think Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, think Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto, think The Loser by Thomas Bernhard. Think." --Rodrigo Fresán "It's official: [Mark Haber]'s novel about melancholy is a laugh riot. Narrated by the devoted assistant of pseudo-intellectual Jacov Reinhardt, the reader follows along for their increasingly misbegotten, cocaine-fueled adventures across Europe and South America. Told in one long, feverish paragraph with sentences that surprise at nearly every turn, Reinhardt's Garden is a gorgeous, joyful, tiny epic. I loved it, and more importantly it got me out of yet another reading rut. Preorder this bad boy from an indie bookstore or [Coffee House Press] please!" --Annie Metclaf, Magers and Quinn Booksellers PRAISE FOR MARK HABER "[Mark Haber's] infinite, fast-paced energy is transparent in the way these stories are constructed. There is no room for awkward silence or meaningless descriptions; everything fits as in a well-told joke that builds on its own momentum. His prose maintains not only a rhythm that seems like a continued punch-line but when it finally arrives at a safe landing place it delivers a terrible reality: the absurdity of failure in his characters' conditions of possibility tells us way more than what we expected. It is humbling and depressing, all at once." --Bruno Ríos, Argonáutica, "Jacov Reinhardt and his faithful assistant roam South America in a quixotic search for the essence of melancholy--an enterprise that makes Werner Herzog''s Fitzcarraldo, their rough contemporary, come off as a levelheaded pragmatist. To follow Reinhardt, fueled by amounts of cocaine not even Sigmund Freud could have managed, is to walk into a fascinating literary maze that spans from Ulrich Schmidl''s chronicles to the decadent movements in turn-of-the-century Europe and Latin America. Melancholy has never felt more euphoric than in Mark Haber''s breathless paragraph-long novel." --Hernan Diaz "Evokes Gertrude Stein, contemporary European and South American writers like Matthias Énard, Roberto Bolaño, and César Aira, with the Quixotic atmosphere of Werner Herzog films like Fitzcarraldo...A strange but lavishly imagined tale of a hard-to-describe feeling." --Kirkus "An exhilarating fever dream about the search for the secret of melancholy. . . . Haber''s dizzying vision dextrously leads readers right into the melancholic heart of darkness." --Publishers Weekly &lds"Heart of Darkness viewed in a fun house mirror."Haber, who has been called ''one of the most influential yet low-key of tastemakers in the book world,'' is about to raise it up a level with the debut of his novel." --The Millions "At times we can imagine Haber to be a Latin American writer. This subtle yet brilliant act of mimicry is perhaps the author''s intention all along." --BOMB Magazine &lds"The cynicism of Haber''s book is tempered with a sweetness that gives it a lovely balance. . . . an innovative piece of fiction.&rdsquo--Houston Chronicle "There is a strange, beautiful aesthetic in the spun thread of tightly, smoothly laminated prose. . . . to accomplish this art in narration, and Haber has, is masterful, touching on genius." --Lone Star Literary Life "In prose as sure as a poison-laced dart, Mark Haber takes the reader on a delirious journey to the heart of melancholy." --Sjón "An adventurous journey into the country of melancholy. A fascinating dissection of human vulnerability." --Guadalupe Nettel "Reinhardt''s Garden is one of those perfect books that looks small and exotic and melancholic from the outside but, once in, is immense and exultant in the best possible way. Think Amulet by Roberto Bolaño, think Nightwood by Djuna Barnes, think Train Dreams by Denis Johnson, think Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, think Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto, think The Loser by Thomas Bernhard. Think." --Rodrigo Fresán "It''s official: [Mark Haber]''s novel about melancholy is a laugh riot. Narrated by the devoted assistant of pseudo-intellectual Jacov Reinhardt, the reader follows along for their increasingly misbegotten, cocaine-fueled adventures across Europe and South America. Told in one long, feverish paragraph with sentences that surprise at nearly every turn, Reinhardt''s Garden is a gorgeous, joyful, tiny epic. I loved it, and more importantly it got me out of yet another reading rut. Preorder this bad boy from an indie bookstore or [Coffee House Press] please!" --Annie Metclaf, Magers and Quinn Booksellers PRAISE FOR MARK HABER "[Mark Haber''s] infinite, fast-paced energy is transparent in the way these stories are constructed. There is no room for awkward silence or meaningless descriptions; everything fits as in a well-told joke that builds on its own momentum. His prose maintains not only a rhythm that seems like a continued punch-line but when it finally arrives at a safe landing place it delivers a terrible reality: the absurdity of failure in his characters'' conditions of possibility tells us way more than what we expected. It is humbling and depressing, all at once." --Bruno Ríos, Argonáutica
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Synopsis
In this delightfully dense, fast-paced comedy with notes of L+szl-- Krasznahorkai and Saul Bellow, Jacov and his scribe cross continents in search of the legendary prophet of melancholic philosophy.philosophy., At the turn of the twentieth century, as he composes a treatise on melancholy, Jacov Reinhardt sets off from his small Croatian village in search of his hero and unwitting mentor, Emiliano Gomez Carrasquilla, who is rumored to have disappeared into the South American jungle--"not lost, mind you, but retired." Jacov's narcissistic preoccupation with melancholy consumes him, and as he desperately recounts the myth of his journey to his trusted but ailing scribe, hope for an encounter with the lost philosopher who holds the key to Jacov's obsession seems increasingly unlikely. From Croatia to Germany, Hungary to Russia, and finally to the Americas, Jacov and his companions grapple with the limits of art, colonialism, and escapism in this antic debut where dark satire and skewed history converge., At the turn of the twentieth century, as he composes a treatise on melancholy, Jacov Reinhardt sets off from his small Croatian village in search of his hero and unwitting mentor, Emiliano Gomez Carrasquilla, who is rumored to have disappeared into the South American jungle-"not lost, mind you, but retired." Jacov's narcissistic preoccupation with melancholy consumes him, and as he desperately recounts the myth of his journey to his trusted but ailing scribe, hope for an encounter with the lost philosopher who holds the key to Jacov's obsession seems increasingly unlikely.From Croatia to Germany, Hungary to Russia, and finally to the Americas, Jacov and his companions grapple with the limits of art, colonialism, and escapism in this antic debut where dark satire and skewed history converge., In this delightfully dense, fast-paced comedy with notes of László Krasznahorkai and Saul Bellow, Jacov and his scribe cross continents in search of the legendary prophet of melancholic philosophy.
LC Classification Number
PS3608.A23835R45
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