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Lord of the Barnyard: Killing the Fatted Calf and Arming the Aware in the Cornbelt
Paperback
HumorHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $20.00
ISBN13: 9780802136725
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: Mar 13 2000
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.06
Height: 1.16 Width: 5.49 Depth: 8.25
Language: English
The manic, painfully funny story of a town's dirty laundry and a garbagemen's strike that lets it all hang out. hailed as a harsh, strange brew, disarming in its richness and a fecund and captivating work, distinguished by its color, exuberance, cohesion and inventiveness. (Times Literary Supplement)
Lord of the Barnyard begins with the death of a woolly mammoth in the last Ice Age and concludes with a greased-pig chase at a funeral in the modern-day Midwest. In the interim there are two hydroelectric dam disasters, fourteen tavern brawls, one shoot-out in the hills, three cases of probable arson, a riot in the town hall, a lone tornado, a coven of Methodist crones, an encampment of Appalachian crop thieves, six renegade coal-truck operators, an outraged mob of factory rats, a dysfunctional poultry plant, and one autodidact goat-roping farm boy by the name of John Kaltenbrunner.
Lord of the Barnyard is a brilliantly comic tapestry of a Middle America populated by assembly-line drones and poultry-plant neck-slicers, measuring into shot glasses the fruits of years of quiet desperation on the factory floor. It is a plea for nothing more than the minimal respect owed to the most forgotten blue-collar workers of the global proletariat, and a word of warning that respect denied can go much farther than postal.
An unforgettable story delivered at dizzy heights of linguistic invention, Lord of the Barnyard introduces a new, uniquely American literary voice who has already won acclaim around the world.
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