Total Oblivion

"A fast-paced, suspenseful dystopian picaresque, part Huck Finn and part bizarro-world Swiss Family Robinson..."

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Skinny Dipping

Long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and finalist for the Crawford Award. Title short story listed for the 2000 O. Henry award.

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Futures, Options, and Swaps (the weblog of Alan DeNiro)

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I’m at work. Check the timestamp. Yeah, that’s pretty much been my week.

In the interests of readerly pleasure, I present to you a sentence from this book that I just finished reviewing:

“Of course, it was a method of assassination the Aztek High Command had authorized against the Nazis in World War 2, when General Rommel’s photograph was purchased from a French agent in Morocco for 200,000 Aztek Tzotzils, and the General found himself suffering from one of the most unspeakable cases of genital elephantiasis unlike anything Saharan Afrika had ever seen, such that when his death actually occurred when his Daimler-Benz staffcare was fired upon by an Aztek Imperial fighter, the General would have been able to save his own life had he been able to exit his vehicle at all without the help of two personal aides pushing the small wheeled cart containing his delicate sexual apparatus alongside the General’s own specially designed folding gurney.”

And with that, I bid you a good night.

Sun, February 12 2006 » Fiction, Life Studies

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