I Smell Esther Williams

Author : Mark Leyner
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307819604
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Smell Esther Williams written by Mark Leyner and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-03-28 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Mark Leyner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788886926706
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sento odore di Esther Williams written by Mark Leyner and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Leyner
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316192775
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sugar Frosted Nutsack written by Mark Leyner and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling and wildly imaginative novelist Mark Leyner, a romp through the excesses and exploits of gods and mortals. High above the bustling streets of Dubai, in the world's tallest and most luxurious skyscraper, reside the gods and goddesses of the modern world. Since they emerged 14 billion years ago from a bus blaring a tune remarkably similar to the Mister Softee jingle, they've wreaked mischief and havoc on mankind. Unable to control their jealousies, the gods have splintered into several factions, led by the immortal enemies XOXO, Shanice, La Felina, Fast-Cooking Ali, and Mogul Magoo. Ike Karton, an unemployed butcher from New Jersey, is their current obsession. Ritualistically recited by a cast of drug-addled bards, The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is Ike's epic story. A raucous tale of gods and men confronting lust, ambition, death, and the eternal verities, it is a wildly fun, wickedly fast gambol through the unmapped corridors of the imagination.

Author : Mark Leyner
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307819612
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist written by Mark Leyner and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-03-28 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Mark Leyner's America, where you can order gallium arsenide sushi at a roadside diner, get loaded on a cocktail of growth hormones and anabolic steroids, and support your habit by appearing on TV game shows. Welcome to a wildly post-Einsteinian fictional universe where the locals include a speech pathologist with a waterbug fetish, a kamikaze airline pilot, and the lead singer for Brazil's most notoriously nihilistic samba band.

Author : Mark Leyner
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307766039
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tetherballs of Bougainville written by Mark Leyner and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his cult classic, I Smell Esther Williams, to his wildly popular and insightful column "Wild Kingdom" appearing in Esquire magazine every month, Mark Leyner has been giving us up close and personal encounters of the most hilarious kind for over a decade. Now, in his new novel The Tetherballs of Bougainville, Leyner shares with us, long last, the quintessential coming of age story that every writer, at some point, is compelled to tell. In the novel we meet young Mark Leyner, 13-years-old to be exact, as he waits in a New Jersey prison to witness his father's execution. Adolescence is never easy, and it just so happens that this junior high schooler is on deadline to turn in a screenplay for which he has already been awarded the Vincent and Lenore DiGiacomo/Oshimitsu Polymers America Award. And, as it was for all of us during out teenage years, nothing seems to go as planned. Written as autobiography, screenplay and movie review, The Tetherballs of Bougainville twists three familiar narrative forms into an outlandishly compelling story. Leyner's use of the media-driven formats brilliantly reflects our secret, shameful and hilarious desire to experience our private lives as mass entertainment. The Tetherballs of Bougainville skewers and celebrates American pop culture in the late twentieth century. Leyner's version of our lives is so deeply funny because it is so painfully true.

Author : Michael Bérubé
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814713009
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Employment of English written by Michael Bérubé and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although few taxpayers and legislators care whether the nation's English professors are doing justice to identifying the beautiful and the sublime, conversely the image of English departments plays a major role in determining public attitudes toward colleges and college faculty. Investigating the ramifications of current debates, this book provides the clearest and most comprehensive account of this controversy to date.

Author : Larry McCaffery
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812214420
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Some Other Frequency written by Larry McCaffery and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McCaffery converses with the young, recklessly daring, and furiously productive William Vollmann and with Marianne Hauser, who published her first novel nearly sixty years ago ... with Native American trickster novelist Gerald Vizenor and "guerrilla writer" Harold Jaffe (whose literary technique is to "plant a bomb, sneak away") ... with stark minimalist Lydia Davis and text-and-collage artist Derek Pell ... with muscular pop icon Mark Leyner and proto-punk diva Kathy Acker. They are a diverse lot, shaped by very different literary and personal influences, and addressing divergent readerships.

Author : Mark Leyner
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316560480
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit written by Mark Leyner and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant and utterly original new novel from Mark Leyner about a father and his intense and devout relationship with his daughter and with alcohol. An anthropologist and his daughter travel to Kermunkachunk, the capitol of Chalazia, to conduct research for an ethnography on the Chalazian Mafia Faction (a splinter group of the Chalazian Children's Theater). The book takes place over the course of a night at the Bar Pulpo, Kermunkachunk's #1 spoken-word karaoke bar, where conversations are actually being read from multiple karaoke screens arrayed around the barroom. Moreover, it's Thursday, "Father/Daughter Nite," when the bar is frequented by actual fathers and daughters as well as couples cosplaying fathers and daughters. ​ Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit is a book about the deep pleasures of reading and drinking, the tumultuous reign of a cabal of mystic mobsters, and, of course, the transcendent love of a father for his daughter.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 958 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Short Story Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Leyner
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307801888
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Et Tu, Babe written by Mark Leyner and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fiendishly original new novel, Mark Leyner is a leather-blazer-wearing, Piranha 793-driving, narcotic-guzzling monster who has potential rivals eliminated by his bionically enhanced bodyguards, has his internal organs tattooed, and eavesdrops on the erotic fantasies of Victoria's Secret models -- which naturally revolve around him. Leyner's jet-propelled roller derby through the cultures of celebrity, cyberpunk, and rabid egotism is exhilaratingly bizarre, exhaustingly funny -- and you'd better hope it's just fiction.