Padgett Powell
You and Me
Thursday 20 September, 2012
7pm, $0/Rsvp: 212-255-4022
192 Books
192 10th Avenue at 21 Street
The author of the cult hit, The Interrogative Mood returns with a hilarious Southern send-up of Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot. Two loquacious men sit talking on a porch. Funny and profound, daft and cogent, they argue about love and sex, how best to live and die, the merits of Miles Davis and Cadillacs and Hollywood starlets of yore, underused cliche's, false truisms, and the meaning of nihilism. Ribald and roaring, You and Me is an exuberant and funny novel from one of the enduring stars of American fiction, an author with a pitch-perfect ear for the way Americans talk and the strange things we say and believe.