The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases - Softcover

Baker, Kage; Bishop, K J; Doctorow, Cory

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553383396 ISBN 13: 9780553383393

Publisher: Bantam, 2005

Synopsis

"Imagine if Monty Python wrote the Mayo Clinic Family Health Book, and you sort of get the idea. Afraid you're afflicted with an unknown malady? Finally you have a place to turn!" --Book Sense

You hold in your hands the most complete and official guide to imaginary ailments ever assembled--each disease carefully documented by the most stellar collection of speculative fiction writers ever to play doctor. Detailed within for your reading and diagnostic pleasure are the frightening, ridiculous, and downright absurdly hilarious symptoms, histories, and possible cures to all the ills human flesh isn't heir to, including Ballistic Organ Disease, Delusions of Universal Grandeur, and Reverse Pinocchio Syndrome.

Lavishly illustrated with cunning examples of everything that can't go wrong with you, the Lambshead Guide provides a healthy dose of good humor and relief for hypochondriacs, pessimists, and lovers of imaginative fiction everywhere. Even if you don't have Pentzler's Lubriciousness or Tian Shan-Gobi Assimilation, the cure for whatever seriousness may ail you is in this remarkable collection.

About this title

Review:

"An amazing book ... plays delicious postmodernist games that are sure to delight the discerning (and slightly warped) reader."
--Publishers Weekly

"Lambshead is just what the doctor ordered."
--Village Voice

Book Description:

A stunningly original, superbly written, riotously funny compendium of thinking person’s humour

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0553383396
• ISBN 13: 9780553383393
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Roberts Mark, VanderMeer Jeff