Traffic and Laughter

"'Traffic and Laughter' is a combustible literary cross between the Hawkesian avant-garde and Don DeLillo's post-modern cool, with a little Pynchonesque mytho-paranoia thrown in for spice. It is a kind of stunt, or spell, or exuberant novel-voodoo against minimalism and the sentimental realism of creative writing schools, a proof that experimentalism still lives in the commercial canyons of New York....The great virtue of [the novel] lies not in any relation it bears to reality (hardly any), but in the author's exuberant and precise manipulation of image and theme. . . . This is new-wave literary joke making at its best--and its most serious....[This] is a work of high art--intelligent, sophisticated and funny, a truly original book."Mooney, Ted is the author of 'Traffic and Laughter', published 1992 under ISBN 9780679738848 and ISBN 0679738843.