I Smell Esther Williams Paperback - 1995
by Mark Leyner
In his debut collection, the author of Et Tu, Babe and My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist and one of our finest young practitioners of the art of literary disorientation plays the English language the way Jimi Hendrix played the guitar--at dangerous volume, blinding speed, and with a fine mixture of lyricism and sheer menace.
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A community theater's production of Special Yearnings triggers a string of underground nuclear explosions from St. Louis to Worcester, Massachusetts. A man frantically swats at the blaze that his girlfriend has ignited in his trousers, while her family tries to figure out whether his agonized sign language means "Under the Volcano" or "No Time for Sergeants." Charo, Marianne Faithfull, and Napoleon's sister swap glittering witticisms and pornographic come-ons with languid aesthetes and unhinged suburbanites.
Such scenarios are just par for the course in this gloriously disorienting volume by Mark Leyner, author of My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist and Et Tu, Babe, and a writer who plays the English language the way Jimi Hendrix played the guitar: at blinding speed, dangerous volume, and with a perfect mixture of lyricism and sheer menace.
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- Title I Smell Esther Williams
- Author Mark Leyner
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date January 31, 1995
- ISBN 9780679750451 / 0679750452
- Weight 0.52 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.2 x 0.6 in (20.32 x 13.21 x 1.52 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Humorous stories, American
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94031359
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Publishers Weekly, 01/09/1995, Page 0
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