Your Body Is Changing - Hardcover

Pendarvis, Jack

 
9781596922341: Your Body Is Changing
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1596922346 ISBN 13: 9781596922341
Verlag: Macadam Cage Pub, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Fresh new hilarity from the author of The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure.

Glittering with mischief and perversity, Pushcart Prize — winner Jack Pendarvis’s latest collection introduces readers to a world of losers poised on the brink of all sorts of disaster – a world only a wink and a nod away from our own.

In the title novella a fundamentalist teenager must single-handedly confront the horrors of a spiritual quest filled with secular humanists, an apocalyptic folk artist, and a malfunctioning breast. The other stories deal poignantly with – among other things – a young millionaire pretending to be a detective, the good folks who invented the diarrhea-inducing chewing gum, and a tollbooth operator who becomes an impromptu drug mule.

Underlying each comedic gem and neurotic twist is an intelligence and empathy rarely found in modern satire. Like the best guidebooks, Your Body Is Changing will invite you in with its zany humor and indict you with its moving truths.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jack Pendarvis lives in Atlanta. His writing has appeared in McSweeney's, The Believer and the Oxford American, and he is a contributing editor to Paste Magazine. His stories have been anthologized in the 2006 Pushcart Prize anthology and elsewhere. Your Body Is Changing is his second book.

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Henry and his mother returned home from Wednesday-night prayer meeting to find an enormous owl eating sausage biscuits out of a torn sack on the kitchen counter. When they walked in the door, the owl turned its head all the way around on its neck and looked over at them just as calm as could be, and it was holding a biscuit in one set of talons, like a man eating half a sandwich.

“Uncle Lipton!” hollered Henry’s mom. Those were Uncle Lipton’s favorite biscuits, but Uncle Lipton was nowhere to be seen.

The owl knocked a whole slew of stuff off the counter as it craned and shook its broad wings. Henry’s mom went for the broom. She tried to tell Henry what to do but he became confused and ran screaming down the hall.

The owl took off after him, emitting a constant stream of silky yellow defecation, but the short and narrow hallway did not accommodate its wingspan. It lost control, destroyed a row of family photographs and barreled into Henry’s back. Henry fell on his chin, splitting about one inch of his tongue down the middle.

Henry rolled over to see the owl careen into the small, pale bathroom. It tore off the shower curtain and, wrapped and blinded, flew into the mirror on the medicine chest, smashing it into diamonds.

Henry scrambled up and shut the door.

“What have you done?” said Henry’s mother.

“Now it can’t get out,” said Henry.

“But we want it to get out,” said Henry’s mother.

Henry spat a great bit of blood onto the floor.

They found Uncle Lipton curled up in a cabinet under the kitchen sink, next to the bug spray and Mr. Clean. His eyes wouldn’t open all the way and he was humming a tune.

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Verlag
Macadam Cage Pub
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1596922346
ISBN 13 
9781596922341
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
193
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