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Book SynopsisHailed a “Best Book of the Year” by NPR,
Publishers Weekly,
Vulture, and the New York Public Library,
Some Trick is now in paperback
Finalist for the Saroyan Prize for Fiction
Trade Review"DeWitt certainly has some more tricks up her sleeve." -- Chicago Review
"Brilliant and inimitable Helen DeWitt: patron saint of anyone in the world who has to deal with the crap of those in power who do a terrible job with their power, and who make those who are under their power utterly miserable." -- Sheila Heti - Electric Literature
"I like dry humor with a stick of dynamite strapped to it. The forthcoming collection
Some Trick by Helen DeWitt, is probably the most recent example." -- Sloane Crosley - New York Times Book Review
"A gem: one of fiction’s greatest minds—dazzling." -- Publishers Weekly
"One definition of a genius is that she is so dissatisfied with the way the world is that she compels it to adjust to her, rather than following the usual course of adjusting to it. How do you get a complacent world to stop talking and pay attention? Some Trick suggests that the answer involves stubbornness, oddity, and a great deal of talent." -- Adam Kirsch - The Atlantic
"DeWitt's style is brilliantly heartless, and cork-dry." -- James Wood - The New Yorker
