I Smell Esther Williams by Leyner, Mark

I Smell Esther Williams (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679750451)

Vendor: Mark Leyner
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Format: Paperback
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I Smell Esther Williams by Leyner, Mark

I Smell Esther Williams

$14.95
I Smell Esther Williams by Leyner, Mark

I Smell Esther Williams

$14.95
Format: Paperback
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A community theater's production of Special Yearnings triggers a string of underground nuclear explosions from St. Louis to Worcester, Massachusetts. A man frantically swats at the blaze that his girlfriend has ignited in his trousers, while her family tries to figure out whether his agonized sign language means "Under the Volcano" or "No Time for Sergeants." Charo, Marianne Faithfull, and Napoleon's sister swap glittering witticisms and pornographic come-ons with languid aesthetes and unhinged suburbanites.

Such scenarios are just par for the course in this gloriously disorienting volume by Mark Leyner, author of My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist and Et Tu, Babe, and a writer who plays the English language the way Jimi Hendrix played the guitar: at blinding speed, dangerous volume, and with a perfect mixture of lyricism and sheer menace.

Author: Mark Leyner
ISBN-10: 0679750452
ISBN-13: 9780679750451
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 01/31/1995
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/09/1995
By Mark Leyner
By Mark Leyner
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Mark Leyner is the author of two novels, Et Tu, Babe and The Tetherballs of Bougainville; two collections of stories, I Smell Esther Williams and Other Stories and My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist; and a collection of fiction, plays, and journalism, Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog. His work has also appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, The New Republic, George, and Harper's.

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