You & Me - Tapa dura

"Padgett Powell's "You & Me, " mixed with 750 ml of fine bourbon, is the most fun you can have in many states without getting arrested. Braver, tougher, smarter than most of the fiction supposedly pushing the envelope. Why? Because it actually means something."--Gary Shteyngart, bestselling author of "Super Sad True Love Story"

"This is the hilarious work of a master in a late-career renaissance."--Creative Loafing

"Wonderful. . . . "You & Me" is by turns hilarious, depressing, gnomic, smutty, and just a far better Saturday night than anything to be had in Jacksonville and Baskersfield combined."--BookForum

"[Written] with typical swaggering genius and ribald wit."--Vanity Fair

"The book promises to be a Southern-fried, whiskey-soaked version of "Waiting for Godot, " and could put Powell in the running for the major literary prizes he's long deserved."--NPR

"Extremely funny . . . reflective and poetic."--Village Voice

"Great fun. . . . Irreverent. . . . Witty. . . . Compelling."--Kirkus Reviews

"Sit back and enjoy the ride. . . . The payoffs are marvelous. . . . Powell gets deeper and funnier every time out."--Shelf Awareness

"There's a wild, improvisational spirit to Powell's literary jazz. . . . You're urged on by hilarious . . . digressions, the musical lilt of the vernacular. . . . Good fun."--GQ.com

"[Powell's] characters might be all talk and no walk, but what wonderful talk it is. . . . Powell, in his recent work, has set his mind ablaze. And nothing but exquisite and deeply strange language is left to emerge from the ashes."--NPR

This hilarious novel, from a master of American fiction, follows two garrulous men as they, sitting and talking on a porch, argue about love and sex, how best to live and die, false truisms, the meaning of nihilism and the merits of Miles Davis, Cadillacs and Hollywood starlets of yore. 25,000 first printing.