Traffic & Laughter by Ted Mooney - ISBN: 9780679738848
Paperback
Farcical and tragic novel cruises the edge of laughter and disaster.

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  • Paperback

    416 pages

  • Release Date

    30 June 1992

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Summary

From the author of Easy Travel to Other Planets, here is “a work of high art—intelligent, sophisticated and funny, a truly original book” (New York Times Book Review).

From the hills above Los Angeles to the French town where Hitler once danced his victory jig, this alluring novel cruises the intersection between the farcical and the tragic.

Praise for Ted Mooney:

“A combustible literary cross between Hawkesian avant-garde and Don DeLillo’s po…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780679738848
ISBN-10:0679738843
Author:Ted Mooney
Publisher:Random House USA Inc
Imprint:Vintage Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:416
Release Date:30 June 1992
Weight:479g
Dimensions:216mm x 140mm x 19mm
Series:Vintage Contemporaries (Paperback)
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Critics Review

Praise for Ted Mooney

“[A] combustible literary cross between Hawkesian avant-garde and Don DeLillo’s post-modern cool.”—The New York Times

“Unsettling, coolly intense… . Mooney is a risk-taking adventurer in novelistic possibilities.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“Equally enchanting and disorienting.”—Boston Book Review

About The Author

Ted Mooney

Ted Mooney is the author of Easy Travel to Other Planets, Traffic and Laughter, Singing into the Piano, and The Same River Twice. His fiction has appeared in Esquire, Granta, and The New American Review, and he received grants from the Guggenheim and the Ingram Merrill foundations. He died in 2022.

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