How Best To Avoid Dying: Stories - Softcover

Egerton, Owen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1593765223 ISBN 13: 9781593765224

Publisher: Soft Skull Press, 2014

Synopsis

In this devilishly clever collection of short fiction, renowned humorist Owen Egerton leads us on a wildly surprising, darkly comic, and often heart-wrenching ride into the terrible beauty of life's end. With razor wit and compassionate insight, Egerton has a crafted a work that brilliantly explores the pain and wonder of life, knowing that with the turn of any corner death could be panhandling for your soul.

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Review:

Praise for How Best to Avoid Dying:

"Egerton offers a collection in the vein of Chuck Palahniuk, full of cynical insight and sardonic humor." -Publishers Weekly

"at once creepy and disturbingly funny."- Kirkus

About the Author:

Owen Egerton is one of the talents behind the award-winning The Sinus Show and Master Pancake Theater at the Alamo Drafthouse Theater, and for several years was the artistic director of Austin’s National Comedy Theatre. He’s written screenplays for Fox, Warner Brothers and Disney studios. He is also the author of the one-man play "The Other Side of Sleep" and the novels The Book of Harold, which is currently in development as a television series with Warner Bros Television, and Everyone Says That at the End of the World. He lives in Austin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Soft Skull Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1593765223
• ISBN 13: 9781593765224
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220