You & Me: A Novel - Brossura

“[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.” (NPR)

“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.’” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))

“[Written] with typical swaggering genius and ribald wit.” (Vanity Fair)

“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.” (San Francisco Chronicle)

“Addictive, a plotless page-turner.” (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

“A hilarious and engaging novel, with a strong sense of natural speech and life’s absurdities, by the author of the highly acclaimed The Interrogative Mood.” (Booklist)

“Wonderful. . . . You & Me is by turns hilarious, depressing, gnomic, smutty, and just a far better Saturday night than anything to be had in Jacksonville and Baskersfield combined.” (BookForum)

“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.” (Interview Magazine)

“This is the hilarious work of a master in a late-career renaissance.” (Creative Loafing)

“Extremely funny . . . reflective and poetic.” (Village Voice)