{"product_id":"you-me-a-novel-isbn-9780062126146","title":"You \u0026 Me: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003ePadgett Powell, author of the acclaimed \u003cem\u003eThe Interrogative Mood\u003c\/em\u003e and “one of the few truly important American writers of our time” (Sam Lipsyte), returns with a hilarious Southern send-up of Samuel Beckett’s classic \u003cem\u003eWaiting for Godot\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTruly a master of envelope-pushing, post-postmodern American fiction, in a class with Nicholas Baker and Lydia Davis, Powell brilliantly blends the sublime, the trivial, and the oddball in \u003cem\u003eYou \u0026amp; Me\u003c\/em\u003e, as two loquacious gents on a porch discuss all manner of subjects, from the mundane to the spiritual to the downright ridiculous.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once outrageously funny and profound, \u003cem\u003eYou \u0026amp; Me\u003c\/em\u003e is yet another brilliant, boundary-bursting masterwork, proving once again that, “there are few writers who understand both the beauty and the absurdity of language as well as Padgett Powell” (Kevin Wilson, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Family Fang\u003c\/em\u003e) and that, “Padgett Powell is one of the best writers in America, and one of the funniest, too” (Ian Frazier).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eYou \u0026amp; Me: A Novel\u003c\/em\u003e won the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003ePadgett Powell has been regarded as unique and one of the most exciting writers today. The \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e calls him \"a master of voice, a generator of absolutely particular, original, hilarious human sounds.\"’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eYou \u0026amp; Me\u003c\/em\u003e is a conversation, apparently on a porch, between two men who may be difficult to grasp. They move together in aimless, convenient debate, coming to conclusions that don't conclude but to positions that may not finally be so aimless. They disagree to agree. They are smart, not smart; fools, not fools.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eYou \u0026amp; Me\u003c\/em\u003e will take you on a tantalizing journey. Confounding, engaging fiction for everyone who loved \u003cem\u003eThe Interrogative Mood\u003c\/em\u003e. Poignant, hilarious, opaque, diamond-clear, Padgett Powell's new novel offers unusual delights.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“This is the hilarious work of a master in a late-career renaissance.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCreative Loafing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Extremely funny . . . reflective and poetic.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Wonderful. . . . \u003ci\u003eYou \u0026amp; Me\u003c\/i\u003e is by turns hilarious, depressing, gnomic, smutty, and just a far better Saturday night than anything to be had in Jacksonville and Baskersfield combined.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookForum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Delightful. . . . Ripe with juicy, drunken, rambling revelations. . . . Powell’s wholly distinctive voice grabs you by the ear and sets you to laughing.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePortland Mercury\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“These old boys are Southern storytellers, masters of the gothic twist, the wry comeback. . . . Their voices become so vivid that reading the book begins to feel like eavesdropping—and a fine spell of eavesdropping it is.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTampa Bay Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“…Hilarious, bizarre and absorbing … Echoes of everyone from Walt Whitman to Will Rogers, vaudeville to Wittgenstein…Powell can make the most barbed issues -the power of media, class resentment, private self-judgment and dread of death - slither through dialogue of zany simplicity.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Hilarious [and] absorbing. . . . Powell can make the most barbed issues—the power of media, class resentment, private self-judgment, and dread of death—slither through dialogue of zany simplicity.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of the South’s most distinctive voices. . . . Make[s] your brain dance in ways you never thought it could. . . . There’s a hallucinatory brilliance at work here . . . most of all, in the improbable and covert way that Powell cracks your heart.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGarden \u0026amp; Gun magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Sit back and enjoy the ride. . . . The payoffs are marvelous. . . . Powell gets deeper and funnier every time out.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“There’s a wild, improvisational spirit to Powell’s literary jazz. . . . You’re urged on by hilarious . . . digressions, the musical lilt of the vernacular. . . . Good fun.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGQ.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Addictive, a plotless page-turner.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Deliciously human. . . . Powell creates dialogue so deftly that we feel we are sitting alongside these men, somehow caught up in their discussion. Slyly funny, sometimes silly, irreverent, impudent, and brash, Powell has crafted a conversation that is comically American, with a free and wild heart.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eInterview Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Written] with typical swaggering genius and ribald wit.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Powell’s] characters might be all talk and no walk, but what wonderful talk it is. . . . Powell, in his recent work, has set his mind ablaze. And nothing but exquisite and deeply strange language is left to emerge from the ashes.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Great fun. . . . Irreverent. . . . Witty. . . . Compelling.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A hilarious and engaging novel, with a strong sense of natural speech and life’s absurdities, by the author of the highly acclaimed \u003ci\u003eThe Interrogative Mood\u003c\/i\u003e.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Hilarious [and] moving.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOxford American\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The novel’s penetrating, playful words manage to ‘pick impossibly heavy sh*t up’ and deliver what one of the characters calls ‘the perfect nonsense a real dream makes.’” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“There are few writers who understand both the beauty and the absurdity of language as well as Padgett Powell. . . .  These are Nobel-big concerns, presented the way all grand truths should be delivered, with humor and tenderness.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKevin Wilson, bestselling author of The Family Fang\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This book is a rare thing: experimental writing with powerful narrative drive. I finished it feeling quieted—by its melancholic probing—and exhilarated by its comic style.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Jeremiah Sullivan, author of Pulphead and Blood Horses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“There are few writers who understand both the beauty and the absurdity of language as well as Padgett Powell. Though his two characters often tell each other that they have nothing to say, these are Nobel-big concerns, presented the way all grand truths should be delivered, with humor and tenderness.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKevin Wilson, bestselling author of The Family Fang\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Padgett Powell’s \u003ci\u003eYou \u0026amp; Me,\u003c\/i\u003e mixed with 750 ml of fine bourbon, is the most fun you can have in many states without getting arrested. Braver, tougher, smarter than most of the fiction supposedly pushing the envelope. Why? 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