Double Negative A Novel

by Carkeet, David

• ISBN13: 9781590203002
• ISBN10: 1590203003
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-23
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Summary

The Edgar Award nominated classic-"intelligent, unpredictable...and extraordinarily funny" (San Francisco Chronicle) Dedicated to the study of toddlers and their development of verbal skills, the Wabash Institute should be staffed by kind, gentle scholars-instead, the center is home to a nest of supremely cranky academics. When one of them is bludgeoned to death, Jeremy Cook-the Institute's premier scholar and the novel's socially clueless hero-becomes the prime suspect. To clear his name, Cook resolves to solve the case, even if it means taking time off from his hobby of teaching imaginary words to the Institute's tiny "subjects." While gleefully skewering academia, Carkeet-a professor of linguistics-also provides a spectacularly ingenious puzzle. "Mystery stories that have a really original solution to the crime are very rare," said the New York Times Book Review, "but Dr. Carkeet has found one." A NEW YORK TIMESNOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

Author Biography

David Carkeet is the author of five novels, including three New York Times Notable Books: Double Negative, The Full Catastrophe, and The Error of Our Ways. His honors include an Edgar nomination, an O. Henry Award, an NEA Fellowship, and the AWP Creative Nonfiction Award. He grew up in northern California and lived for 30 years in St. Louis, where he and his wife raised three daughters. In Vermont, his current home, he plays the trumpet relentlessly.