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My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist

A novel

Mark Leyner

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English
Vintage Books
10 May 1995
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.
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Imprint:   Vintage Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 202mm,  Width: 133mm,  Spine: 11mm
Weight:   173g
ISBN:   9780679745792
ISBN 10:   0679745793
Series:   Vintage Contemporaries
Pages:   160
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Mark Leyner is the author of two novels,Et Tu, Babe and The Tetherballs of Bougainville; two collections of stories, I Smell Esther Williams andOther Storiesand 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.

Reviews for My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist: A novel

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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