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Whatever Gets You Through the Night: A Story of Sheherezade and the Arabian Entertainments Hardback - 2011

by Andrei Codrescu

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An irreverent and deeply funny retelling of the Arabian Nights

"I fear each passing night that I will not receive my maintenance dose of suspense, and then I will cease to exist."--Whatever Gets You through the Night

Whatever Gets You through the Night is an irreverent and deeply funny retelling of the Arabian Nights and a wildly inspired exploration of the timeless art of storytelling. Award-winning writer Andrei Codrescu reimagines how Sheherezade saved Baghdad's virgins and her own life through a heroic feat of storytelling--one that kept the Persian king Sharyar hanging in agonizing narrative and erotic suspense for 1001 nights. For Sheherezade, the end of either suspense or curiosity means death, but Codrescu keeps both alive in this entertaining tale of how she learned to hold a king in thrall, setting with her endless invention an unsurpassable example for all storytellers across the ages. Liberated and mischievous, Codrescu's Sheherezade is as charming as she is shrewd--and so is the story Codrescu tells.

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"Like a supercomputer concealed inside an exotic, aphrodisiac fruit, Codrescu's retelling of this ancient bawdy wonderwork ends up by surprisingly calculating the future of our race."--Tom Robbins, author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

"This extraordinary rewriting of the Arabian Nights is a tour de force. Andrei Codrescu writes with verve, eloquence, and a fervent imagination."--Jack Zipes, adapter of the Signet Classics Arabian Nights

"This is a masterpiece of storytelling that could find its place alongside the fairy-tale works of Angela Carter, Robert Coover, and Salman Rushdie. Andrei Codrescu gives readers a new and highly entertaining experience of Sheherazade and the Arabian Nights."--Donald Haase, editor of Marvels and Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies

"Andrei Codrescu's brilliant retelling of the Arabian Nights is of the same caliber as Borges's Ficciones. A pleasure to read, it has the lightness, strength, and sparkle of a spider's web."--Cristina Bacchilega, author of Postmodern Fairy Tales

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  • Title Whatever Gets You Through the Night: A Story of Sheherezade and the Arabian Entertainments
  • Author Andrei Codrescu
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition Uncorrected Proo
  • Pages 200
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton, England
  • Publication date 2011-05
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover
  • ISBN 9780691143378 / 0691143374
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 7.88 x 0.8 in (22.91 x 20.02 x 2.03 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Storytelling
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010039073
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Foreword, 04/29/2011, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 05/15/2011, Page 85
  • Publishers Weekly, 04/25/2011, Page 0

About the author

Andrei Codrescu is an award-winning poet, novelist, essayist, and NPR commentator. His recent books include The Posthuman Dada Guide and The Poetry Lesson (both Princeton).
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