Smoke Show - Softcover

Burnham, Associate Professor Clint

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551521962 ISBN 13: 9781551521961

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2006

Synopsis

A doll taped to the hood of a wedding car. A list of favorite cocktails from the eighties. Hide the drugs from your parents and your kids. Kevin Costner in Waterworld: hot or not? Smoke Show is a novel that will astound readers with its audacious, stripped-down narrative set in the mid-nineties about assorted losers, diehards, and lost souls, seen through a hazy filter of bus fumes and cigarette smoke. Told in "real time," Smoke Show is raw, candid, and amorphous, told through jargon and petty dialogue commonly heard in the street or on public transit. Clint Burnham evokes William Gaddis, David Foster Wallace, and Irvine Welsh in this novel, a confounding period piece that takes no prisoners.

About this title

About the Author

Clint Burnham is a Vancouver writer and teacher. His previous books include the story collection Airborne Photo (1999), the poetry collection Buddyland (2000), Be Labour Reading (1997), and numerous others great and small.

Edition details

• Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1551521962
• ISBN 13: 9781551521961
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192