Lacking Character A Novel Curtis White by Curtis White 9781612196794, 9781612196787, 9781612197357, 9782017045496, 9782017051527, 2017045497, 2017051527, 1612196799, 1612196780 instant download after payment.

The man Paul Auster called “a master of bewitchments” & a founder of the Fiction Collective returns to the novel after twenty years

Curtis White's long-awaited return to fiction reminds us that the founder of one of American literature's most vibrant & innovative movements is still the King of "transcendental buffoonery." 
        The story begins when a masked man appears in the night at the door of the Marquis, proclaiming a matter of life & death: "I stand falsely accused of an atrocity!" 
        Except he's not, really; he's just trying to get the attention of the Marquis (a video game-playing burnout) to help him enroll in some community college vocational classes. And so the exchange gets badly botched, and our masked man is soon lost in a maddening America, encountering its absurdities at every turn, & cursing his cruel fate. 
        In a time with the crisis du jour, White asks us to remember what it's like to laugh—to be a little silly even—in order to reclaim what used to be fundamental to us: the strength to create our own worlds. 
        CURTIS WHITE has published seven earlier books of fiction, including Memories of My Father Watching TV. His non-fiction includes The Middle Mind, The Science Delusion, & We, Robots. His essays have appeared in Harper’s, the Village Voice, Orion, Salon, Tricycle, & Playboy.