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The cult hit The Interrogative Mood—a Best Book of the Entire Year choice by Amazon.com, GQ, The Believer, Time-Out Ny, and elsewhere—reminded visitors that Padgett Powell is among the enduring superstars of American fiction, a power author with a pitch-perfect ear for the way in which Americans speak and the unusual things we say and think. Now he returns with a comical Southern send up of Samuel Beckett's classic Awaiting Godot, and we enter the planet of the elegant and insignificant as just Powell may visualize it. Two loquacious males stay speaking on the patio. Serious and humorous, cogent and silly, they dispute about sex and love, how better to live and die, the merits of Miles Davis and Cadillacs and Hollywood starlets of yore, underused clichÉs, fake truisms, and this is of nihilism.