The Exquisite, Laird Hunt
The Exquisite, Laird Hunt
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The Exquisite

Author: Laird Hunt

Narrator: Patrick Zeller

Unabridged: 6 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/05/2021

Synopsis

Henry, a New Yorker left destitute by circumstance and obsession, is plucked from vagrancy by a shadowy outfit whose primary business is arranging for staged murders of anxiety-ridden clients unhinged by the “events downtown” and seeking to experience — and live through — their own carefully executed assassinations. When Henry joins this nefarious crew, which includes a beautiful blonde tattooist named Tulip, contortionist twins, and a woman referred to only as “the knockout,” he becomes inextricably linked to its ringleader, the mysterious herring connoisseur Mr. Kindt, whose identity can be traced through twists and turns all the way back to the corpse depicted in Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lesson. Substantive, stylish, and darkly comic, The Exquisite is a skillful dissection of reality, human connection, and the very nature of existence.

About Laird Hunt

Laird Hunt is an award-winning novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and translator from the French. A finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, he has won the Anisfield­-Wolf Award for Fiction, the Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine, and Italy's Bridge prize. His reviews and essays have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, among others. He teaches at Brown University and lives in Providence.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Stacia on July 19, 2022

Do you ever start reading a book and immediately picture one of the characters as an actor? I pegged Aris Kindt as Anthony Hopkins...and the rest of the book played out as a movie in my head the whole time I was reading it. (This is a good thing. I love movies.) I also saw some mentions of it having......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on January 08, 2008

Reminded me a bit of David Lynch except for the fact that it wasn't bad and was meant to be understood.......more

Goodreads review by Richard on August 03, 2010

I was leaning 3 stars, but it had a fantastic ending, and I finally understood it all. This is a very strange book, surreal, and not firmly grounded in reality, but then, at times, it is. A wild ride, with moments of brilliance. As for the "bizarro" aspect I'd say it leans more towards surreal than......more

Goodreads review by Marcus on July 06, 2009

The terms noir and mystery are likely to be affixed to this book, and its mood belongs to the genre. It is foremost a work of literary fiction, meaning a type of storytelling where the emphasis is placed more on the way of telling - the language, imagery, verbal stunts, metaphors, and various lingui......more

Goodreads review by Paolo on January 15, 2020

Uno dei migliori libri sull’11 settembre, sebbene l’11 settembre non venga mai nominato esplicitamente, e forse proprio per questo, pur parlando dei traumi post-9/11 è un libro che riesce a mantenere una sua freschezza al di là degli eventi storici e a affrontare invece diverse dinamiche e reazioni......more

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