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Urban Legends: The As-Complete-As-One-Could-Be Guide to Modern Myths - Softcover

Genge, Ngaire E.

 
9780609804940: Urban Legends: The As-Complete-As-One-Could-Be Guide to Modern Myths
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0609804944 ISBN 13: 9780609804940
Verlag: Three Rivers Pr, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

A comprehensive compilation of modernday urban myths and folklore presents more than three hundred macabre, zany legends, organized into such chapters as "Crazy Little Thing Called Sex," "Scare Me!," "Campus Capers," "So Much for Comfort Food," and "Corporate Convolutions." Original. 17,500 first printing.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

N.E. Genge is the author of numerous books, including <b>The Buffy Chronicles</b> and <b>The Unofficial X-Files Companion</b>. She lives in Labrador City, Newfoundland.

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Legends</b> is a remarkably complete collection of the modern myths that make the rounds in offices, college dorms, and every other place where people tell the stories that spring from our deepest fears and fascinations.<br><br>Every culture has its folktales including ours. Except, instead of involving gods and goddesses or princes and princesses, ours involve "some guy my sister's best friend knows" or "someone who woke up in a motel room." They happened, supposedly, to real people, usually recently, in a particular place. And they touch the most sensitive nerves of our psyches with ironic twists, gross-out shocks, and moral lessons learned the hard way.<br><br>From the classic tale "The Mexican Pet" in which the "dog" turns out to be no Chihuahua to the more unappetizing story of condoms as fast-food burger garnish, from surgically skilled kidney thieves to sexual experiments that end in the emergency room, <b>Urban Legends</b> relates mo

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Verlag
Three Rivers Pr
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0609804944
ISBN 13 
9780609804940
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
328
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