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Six dark fictions with a cosmic scope and a delirious immediacy, these shorter pieces (2 novellas and 4 one-acts) are an aspect of Swartz's gift many will find welcome, others hugely unsettling. "The Old Man and the Bird, " the concluding sequence of a befuddled Harry Ricci, could be taken as a "neo-conservatively-grotesque" parable. From there it is a short stroll to Burt Spew in "Snappers," a madcap Armageddon of its own and parody of "Jaws." We have as well such oddities as "The Damnation of Winston Pollock," the saga of a disgruntled software wizard; "The Gift Horse and the Gift," the comic swan song of a disaffected shooter; "Off the Record," the threnody of "a pedophilic trans-racial hip hop" composer; and "Clippers," the outcry of a small-town American sub-literate, a latter-day, testosterone-laden barber "waiting for (his) Godot." All told, these tales are abundant reminder that it was possible to laugh before 9/11, and to chuckle, even roar, long after, en route to our current Abu Ghraibs or Guantanamos.

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Plný název: Old Man and the Bird and Other Fictions
• Podnázev: [pleasant and unpleasant]
• Autor: David Swartz
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 260
• EAN: 9780595416295
• ISBN: 9780595416295
• ID: 07366325
• Nakladatelství: iUniverse
• Hmotnost: 386 g
• Rozměry: 229 × 152 × 15 mm
• Datum vydání: 25. October 2006

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