THE MAN WHO TOOK A BITE OUT OF HIS WIFE & Other Stories
Language: English
Published by Overlook Books, 1993
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used

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Overlook, c1993, First Edition, Fine in Fine dust jacket. 230 pages. FICTION FIRST BOOK; A3973 J Fic.
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- Title
- THE MAN WHO TOOK A BITE OUT OF HIS WIFE & Other Stories
- Author
- Jafek, Bev
- Publisher
- Overlook Books
- Publication year
- 1993
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 087951499X
- ISBN 13
- 9780879514990
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing.
The dangers of intimacy and losing one's identity in a marriage are examined in the title story, a breathtakingly daring work about a wife who is literally devoured by her husband and children as they partake of a neverending sacrament - an ancient ritual to satiate an ancient hunger - in a gleaming Formica kitchen with all the modern conveniences.
Talk show host of the future John Q. Slade recounts the edge-of-your-seat excitement of the night Mickey Mouse went philosophical on him on live TV in "You've Come a Long Way, Mickey Mouse." In "Schrodinger's Cat," the theoretical physicist runs into his cat, Young Werther, in the state of alternate reality posited by his theory and is greeted by the cat: "Welcome to nonexistence. It's quite a place."
Combining offbeat and wildly intelligent humor with an unerring sense of post-modern absurdity, Bev Jafek offers a bracing look at modern technology, modern relationships and the ever-present threat of the future breathing down our necks.
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