The Pornographers
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ISBN10: 0983195641
ISBN13: 9780983195641
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 3 2012
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780983195641
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 3 2012
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The single brilliantly funny voice of something genuinely new. - Walter Benn Michaels, American literary theorist, and author of The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History It is a pleasure to think about what Grimes's art is thinking, but the greatest pleasure, like the pleasure of music, is in the unfolding inventions of the language itself. - Curtis White, American Book Review From take-off to landing, The Pornographers moves at the speed of sound through post 9-11 angst, yoga, bureaucratic helplessness, marriage, collective public insecurity and family. A group of minor bureaucrats operating under the unfunded directive of Homeland Security try to start a commercial pornography site in order to generate revenue for their city. Their research into the the porn industry does in fact suggest it as a viable solution to their economic woes. Meanwhile their wives threaten to follow a guru to India in search of their own inner security. The Pornographers sizzles with ripe language, humor and serious and real concerns about America in the 21st Century, all bundled with good, old-fashioned dramatic suspense. Oh, and by the way, the novel is written as a single, grammatically-correct sentence.
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