My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist

Leyner, Mark

ISBN 10: 0517575795 ISBN 13: 9780517575796

Published by N.Y.: Crown/Harmony, 1990

Language: English

Condition: Used - Very good Soft cover

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1st printing of trade paperback original. Wraps show just a touch of shelfwear. Inscribed by Leyner to p/o on half-title page. Nice copy of author's second book, surprisingly uncommon signed in first edition. 154 pages.

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Title

My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist

Publisher

N.Y.: Crown/Harmony

Publication Date

1990

Language

English

ISBN 10

0517575795

ISBN 13

9780517575796

Binding

Soft cover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Very Good

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Inscribed by Author(s)

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Leyner's wild, controversial new novel is a 16-car pileup in which cyberpunkish science fiction, hardboiled detective fiction, American pop culture and everything forgotten from high school health class are melted down into a fiction analog of the best drug ever prescribed! An eye opener from page one.

Review

"I really, really liked it. It's like nothing else. I laughed out loud in the bathroom." -- David Byrne

Welcome to Mark Leyner's America, where you can order gallium arsenide sushi at a roadside diner, get loaded on a cocktail of growth hormones and steroids, and support your habit by appearing on TV game shows. Welcome to a wildly post-Einsteinian fictional universe where the locals include a speech pathologist with a waterbug fetish, a kamikaze airline pilot, and the lead singer for Brazil's most notoriously nihilistic samba band.

My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist is fiction the brain can dance to, by one of the funniest and most subversive young writers of this or any other decade.

"Most current fiction is as well made and exciting as floral wallpaper; but here is a writer willing to decorate the room with the contents of his own dynamited head."

-- Entertainment Weekly

"Reading this is like fishing in some hallucinated lake of the subconscious. No telling what term, idea, or thing you'll pull up next."

-- Houston Post

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