Nothing Happened and Then It Did: A Chronicle in Fact and Fiction

By Jake Silverstein

Book Overview

In prose so fine and wry it makes the back of your neck prickle, Jake Silverstein narrates a journey he undertook through the American Southwest and Mexico, looking to become a journalist. His picaresque travels are filled with beguiling and hilarious characters: nineteenth-century author Ambrose Bierce; an unknown group of famous poets; a twenty-first-century treasure hunter in the Gulf of Mexico; an ex-Nazi mechanic shepherding an old Mexican road race; a stenographer who records every passing moment; and various incarnations of the trickster devil. As bold, ambitious, and funny as it is unconventional, Nothing Happened and Then It Did is a deep and lasting pleasure.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393076466
• ISBN13: 9780393076462
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.6"