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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791119703321

Autore

Davis Brian Joseph <1975->

Titolo

Ronald Reagan, my father [[electronic resource] /] / Brian Joseph Davis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, : ECW Press, c2010

ISBN

1-55490-988-0

1-282-61467-3

9786612614675

1-55490-917-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (146 p.)

Disciplina

C813/.6

Soggetti

Canadian fiction

Canadian literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Misfit book".

Nota di contenuto

Unicorns, part one -- Ordinary people -- Bury my heart at Tataouine -- Gift of the twelfth congressional district of Michigan -- Libertine -- Bourguignon prize -- Johnny -- Five minutes to sexy hair -- Lame shall enter at five miles per hour -- Untitled Senator Joseph Lieberman vanity film project -- Voice over -- Helen does the hustle -- Unicorns, part two.

Sommario/riassunto

Startlingly original, these hilariously offbeat storylines blend vivid characters with bleakly comical plots that are both human and uncanny. Each memorable character-including the elderly who take to the streets at night for illegal and cathartic electric scooter racing, a copy editor who suffers brain damage from West Nile virus and is suddenly filled with cannibalistic violence and award-winning minimalist poetry, and Mayor McCheese who visits a sexually repressed British couple in the early 1970's and touches their lives forever-contributes to the colle