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2011: A Collection of Prose and Cons...
Paperback
Publisher Price: $14.00
ISBN13: 9780934388009
Publisher: Spudders Crest LLC
Published: Sep 20 2022
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A writer terrifies a small town. A Major League baseball player consults the Buddha. A woman disappears in front of the cameras. A cat whistles. The husband of a writer gets a life-altering makeover in his wife's comic strip. In a series of interwoven tales, a man discovers he's the Baron of a vanished country, only to get entangled in an assassination plot with international ramifications, from Oslo to Paris, from Santa Fe to Pakistan.
And in what must be a first in world literature, we are treated to a half-time show, complete with live commentary, and a very special guest star -Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Set in the fictional realm of Haven, New Connecticut, during the Great Recession of 2011, the thirty-six stories gathered here ensconces the reader in the middle of a world both recognizable and unsettlingly strange.
Written with caustic wit, and a satirical bent, these tales sometimes tickle, sometimes outrage. With a cast of recurring characters, the author explores the improbable, and exposes the real world for what it, perhaps, truly is -a Joke.
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