Et Tu, Babe

Et Tu, Babe
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 177
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780679745068
ISBN-13 : 0679745068
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Et Tu, Babe by : Mark Leyner

In this fiendishly original new novel, Mark Leyner is a leather-blazer-wearing, Piranha 793-driving, narcotic-guzzling monster who has potential rivals eliminated by his bionically enhanced bodyguards, has his internal organs tattooed, and eavesdrops on the erotic fantasies of Victoria's Secret models -- which naturally revolve around him. Leyner's jet-propelled roller derby through the cultures of celebrity, cyberpunk, and rabid egotism is exhilaratingly bizarre, exhaustingly funny -- and you'd better hope it's just fiction.

Et Tu, Babe

Et Tu, Babe
Author :
Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 177
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780307801883
ISBN-13 : 0307801888
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Et Tu, Babe by : Mark Leyner

In this fiendishly original new novel, Mark Leyner is a leather-blazer-wearing, Piranha 793-driving, narcotic-guzzling monster who has potential rivals eliminated by his bionically enhanced bodyguards, has his internal organs tattooed, and eavesdrops on the erotic fantasies of Victoria's Secret models -- which naturally revolve around him. Leyner's jet-propelled roller derby through the cultures of celebrity, cyberpunk, and rabid egotism is exhilaratingly bizarre, exhaustingly funny -- and you'd better hope it's just fiction.

My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist

My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 161
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780307819611
ISBN-13 : 0307819612
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist by : Mark Leyner

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 anabolic 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.

Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit

Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit
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Publisher : Little, Brown
Total Pages : 256
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780316560481
ISBN-13 : 0316560480
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit by : Mark Leyner

A brilliant and utterly original new novel from Mark Leyner about a father and his intense and devout relationship with his daughter and with alcohol. An anthropologist and his daughter travel to Kermunkachunk, the capitol of Chalazia, to conduct research for an ethnography on the Chalazian Mafia Faction (a splinter group of the Chalazian Children's Theater). The book takes place over the course of a night at the Bar Pulpo, Kermunkachunk's #1 spoken-word karaoke bar, where conversations are actually being read from multiple karaoke screens arrayed around the barroom. Moreover, it's Thursday, "Father/Daughter Nite," when the bar is frequented by actual fathers and daughters as well as couples cosplaying fathers and daughters. ​ Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit is a book about the deep pleasures of reading and drinking, the tumultuous reign of a cabal of mystic mobsters, and, of course, the transcendent love of a father for his daughter.

Gone with the Mind

Gone with the Mind
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Publisher : Hachette+ORM
Total Pages : 184
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780316323116
ISBN-13 : 031632311X
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Gone with the Mind by : Mark Leyner

The blazingly inventive fictional autobiography of Mark Leyner, one of America's "rare, true original voices" (Gary Shteyngart). Dizzyingly brilliant, raucously funny, and painfully honest, Gone with the Mind is the story of Mark Leyner's life, told as only Mark Leyner can tell it. In this utterly unconventional novel -- or is it a memoir? -- Leyner gives a reading in the food court of a New Jersey shopping mall. The "audience" consists of Mark's mother and some stray Panda Express employees, who ask a handful of questions. The action takes place entirely at the food court, but the territory covered in these pages has no bounds. A joyride of autobiography, cultural critique, DIY philosophy, biopolitics, video games, demagoguery, and the most intimate confessions, Gone with the Mind is both a soulful reckoning with mortality and the tender story of the relationship between a complicated mother and an even more complicated son. At once nostalgic and acidic, deeply humane, and completely surreal, Gone with the Mind is a work of pure, hilarious genius.

The Sugar Frosted Nutsack

The Sugar Frosted Nutsack
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Publisher : Hachette UK
Total Pages : 256
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780316192774
ISBN-13 : 0316192775
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis The Sugar Frosted Nutsack by : Mark Leyner

From the bestselling and wildly imaginative novelist Mark Leyner, a romp through the excesses and exploits of gods and mortals. High above the bustling streets of Dubai, in the world's tallest and most luxurious skyscraper, reside the gods and goddesses of the modern world. Since they emerged 14 billion years ago from a bus blaring a tune remarkably similar to the Mister Softee jingle, they've wreaked mischief and havoc on mankind. Unable to control their jealousies, the gods have splintered into several factions, led by the immortal enemies XOXO, Shanice, La Felina, Fast-Cooking Ali, and Mogul Magoo. Ike Karton, an unemployed butcher from New Jersey, is their current obsession. Ritualistically recited by a cast of drug-addled bards, The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is Ike's epic story. A raucous tale of gods and men confronting lust, ambition, death, and the eternal verities, it is a wildly fun, wickedly fast gambol through the unmapped corridors of the imagination.

I Smell Esther Williams

I Smell Esther Williams
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 209
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780679750451
ISBN-13 : 0679750452
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis I Smell Esther Williams by : Mark Leyner

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.

Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?

Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?
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Publisher : Crown
Total Pages : 290
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780307345974
ISBN-13 : 0307345971
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex? by : Mark Leyner

The Doctor Is In . . . Again! Did the mega-bestselling Why Do Men Have Nipples? exhaust your curiosity about stuff odd, icky, kinky, noxious, libidinous, or just plain embarrassing? No, you say? Well, good, because the doctor and his able-bodied buddy are in! Again! Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg, M.D., now take on the differences between the sexes—those burning questions like Why doesn’t my husband ever listen? or Why does my wife ALWAYS have to pee? And of course, Why do men fall asleep after sex?, plus plenty of others to keep you fully informed. Full of smart and funny answers to an onslaught of new questions, all in a do-ask-we’ll-tell spirit that entertain and teaches you something at the same time, Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex? offers the real lowdown on everything everyone wants to know about all things anatomical, medical, sexual, nutritional, animal, and mineral, but would only ask a physician after a few too many, like: • Why do you have a “bionic” sense of smell when you’re pregnant? • Does peeing in the shower cure athlete’s foot? • Is a dog’s mouth clean? • Can you breastfeed with fake boobs? • Does thumb sucking cause buckteeth? • Do your eyebrows grow back if shaved? Bigger, funnier, and better than ever, Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex? proves that in the battle of the sexes, as in most things, a little Q&A is a safe, effective, minimally invasive remedy. Also available as an eBook

Let's Play Doctor

Let's Play Doctor
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Publisher : Three Rivers Press (CA)
Total Pages : 226
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780307345981
ISBN-13 : 030734598X
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Let's Play Doctor by : Mark Leyner

The authors of the bestselling series that includes "Why Do Men Have Nipples?" and "Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?" are back with a hilarious look at what it takes to look, act, and talk like a real doctor.

Tooth Imprints On a Corn Dog

Tooth Imprints On a Corn Dog
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 241
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780307766045
ISBN-13 : 0307766047
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Tooth Imprints On a Corn Dog by : Mark Leyner

A fiendishly innovative young writer ups the ante on his cult classics Et Tu, Babe and My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist with a book so funny that it ought to be a controlled substance. "With his pumped-up prose and steroidal satire . . . You could call him the Quentin Tarantino of cult fiction."--Newsweek.