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Omschrijving
Lucky Jokers is a collection of short stories and flash fiction pieces. Slightly more than half are set in a changing, stretching Denver after marijuana legalization, starring overgrown freelance writer and sometime market research interviewer, Howard Plumber. Howard's adventures are alternated with fictional stories and flash pieces he's written. Segments relating events in this character's life are approximately contiguous, concerning the lead up to his life-changing plastic surgery operation and its surreal aftermath. Things hinted at in one episode are fulfilled in another. Howard's stories and flash pieces-all funny, with a darkish kick-are of a similarly modern, wounded character as events in his life, being distorted projections of the same raw material. All his characters are manifestations of his ongoing attempts at self-actualization. In one, the town kook's eyes fall out of his head when he sneezes, and he rings up the last woman he had sex with and makes a joke about it ("This Old Universe"). In another, a disinterested cultist finds community among the freaks and outcasts haunting an abandoned shopping mall ("Comforter Warmers"). In the mostly extremely short stories he writes, as well as the longer ones depicting his experience, Howard's self-obsession and attitudes toward the dominant group, in a world growing daily more virtualized and segregated by algorithms, is highlighted.
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- Auteur(s):
- Uitgeverij:
Inhoud
- Aantal bladzijden:
- 218
- Taal:
- Engels
Eigenschappen
- Productcode (EAN):
- 9798535719283
- Verschijningsdatum:
- 11/07/2021
- Uitvoering:
- Paperback
- Formaat:
- Trade paperback (VS)
- Afmetingen:
- 152 mm x 229 mm
- Gewicht:
- 299 g
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