Claim Now The Short Fall Depicted By Marek Waldorf Displayed As Audio Book

is a spellbinding novel, not only for the story itself originally and cleverly built around a speechwriter recovering from a botched presidential assassination but also for the multiple levels and deeper meanings of the writing.
It is so compelling that you can no longer distinguish truth from lie, certainty from doubt, facts from propaganda, or honesty from deceit, Everything, even the smallest detail, is so dazzlingly designed that you believe it to be real and right, until the very end when you realize or do you

I dont know if in the end this is more about the language of politics or the politics of language.
It could well be both! What I know is that Waldorfs flair, wit and style glued me to the book, The way he masters letters that Ess is superb!, words, parenthesis, acronyms, paragraphs or, better, the lack thereof, descriptions, concepts, characters and plots is truly mind blowing,

A complex book, but highly recommended for a fantastic read and a new brobdingnagian vocabulary,
I loved the writing in this novel, the wordpictures, . . I liked neither Chad nor Vlad, . . but time and again, found myself wondering, WONDERING! at the author's creativity and perception to imagine inside a head w/o a body that functions, A bitter head a somewhat crazed head,

A note and question to Angela: how DID you follow all of this 'American political tale' stuff I'm appalled at the very close truth of so much of what was written.
. at least I think its probably close to the truth it, That aside, thank you for recommending this, A wonderful Writer a strangeinagoodway story teller, Buy it and support a writer who doesn't get much attention, The blurb can tell you some things here, it's enough to point out that there's invention, playfulness, a mash of forms, and inventiveness in this first novel, Waldorfs The Short Fall is a complete work, from conception to execution, Style and content are perfectly matched, It succeeds on three levels: as a meditation on writing and language that revels in their possibilities and, even more impressively, thoughtfully addresses their limitations as a study of a character who is a cipher in life and, as a narrator, remains slippery while making the reader privy to his deepest if not always reliable inner workings and as an original slant on the political circus we're all so familiar with from the outside, but which few of us really know that much about.


The language of the book is remarkable, At one point the narrator talks about carefully choosing words that have multiple meaningsa technique Waldorf has used consistently throughout beginning with the title, packing so much more info into this book than a page count would indicate, because there's so much multiplicity of meaningpuns, connotations, etc.
This results in some wonderful wordplay, and skeins of meaning that can be drawn out of each sentence, There are so many metaphors and symbols for writing that even a word like "quills," used botanically, possesses another layer, I caught references to political speeches from Churchill to Nixon to Bush père, and there are probably many others I missed,

Though ultimately tragic, the book is also extremely funny in places, It flows beautifully and truly creates the impression of an acute mind trapped in a body that won't function, left only with memories and speculation, both of which are subject to spiral into obsessive flights.
"The Short Fall is a rhetorical triumph, a novel about the presidency built architecturally on language and skyscraper sentences, an impressive, high flying debut, "Jonathan Baumbach

"Possessed of great verve and tremendous inventive muscle, Marek Waldorf offers style and substance to spare in this terrific debut, Calvino's millennial qualities are all here: but especially quickness and lightness and lots of pleasurable multiplicity, I got hits, in reading The Short Fallan experience, in short, that I highly recommendof early, rollicking Javier Marias, but also of Gilbert Sorrentino and Harry Mathews too.
"Laird Hunt

A speechwriter shot during a botched assassination starts to recover powers of speech along with piecedtogether memories of the campaign he served and the candidate he helped make president of a "bankrupt and volatile" republic.
The more the narrator remembers the more he suspects that he was the target, A frenzied, lyrical, farcical, anguished monologue on the personal and political,

Raymond Chandler once wrote in a letter, "It doesn't matter a damn what a novel is about, The only fiction of any moment in any age is that which does magic with words, "

Marek Waldorf does magic with words in The Short Fall, a multilevel debut novel about a paralyzed speechwriter's relationship to his client, a charismatic presidential candidate named Vince Talbot, and about his own relationship to the written word.
The novel, filled with lively effusions of wit and unexpected humor, is at once a nonideological flyonthewall exposé of how campaigns are run and a meditation on writing and creative embellishment.
It's an achronological story of recovery, one that

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