Round 15: Tossup 3
This author parodied smut writing in a novel in which the bank clerk Gertie Girdle flirtatiously plays her captors off each other while a hostage during the Easter Rising. This author created a set of “hesitating,” “passive,” and “cockney” narrators, all of whom mention the long neck and plaited hat of a youth who is advised about a button on his coat. This author of We Always Treat Women Too Well wrote a novel whose unusual first word Barbara Wright translated as “how-can-ay-stink-so-tho.” A book by this author retells a sequence of two men jostling each other on a bus using 99 unique voices. A novel by this author climaxes with Uncle Gabriel fleeing a shootout with pedophiles by finally taking the title foul-mouthed girl into the Paris Subway. For 10 points, name this French Oulipo author of Exercises in Style and Zazie in the Metro. ■END■
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| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | Conv. % | Neg % | Avg. Buzz |
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| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 24 | 88% | 8% | 90.19 |