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"Just when you think Greenman has thoroughly excavated all available humor, he surprises with a snipe from an unforeseen direction."
Superbad: Stories and Pieces, published in hardcover in 2001 by McSweeney's, was composed of more than two dozen works of fiction in various genres ranging from serious short stories to postmodern satires to lyrical works located on the border between poetry and prose. As Susan Minot put it, it seems as if Greenman's mind contains "a Russian short story writer, a slapstick gag writer, an art critic, a literary critic, a cultural commentator, a cowboy, a satirist, a scientist, a postmodernist, an anti-postmodernist, a surrealist, a nut, a genius, a stand-up comedian, a child prodigy, a dreamer, and a poet."
This new Soft Skull edition - entitled Superworse: A Novel - reconceives Superbad with an eye toward its overall architecture. Laurence Onge, the editor who wrote the introduction to Superbad, has taken a greater role in overseeing this revised edition, emphasizing the fact that the individual pieces in the collection are not simply sharing space but sharing themes, that they are intricately related to one another as movements in a symphony or gears in a clockwork. As Onge endeavors to prove, the book is very tightly constructed, with a mirror-image arrangement and many characters, not all human, threaded throughout. While Superbad was a humor collection in the finest McSweeney's tradition, Superworse is a novel in the spirit of Borges and Barthelme.
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Paperback. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 4.05. Nº de ref. del artículo: G1932360131I3N00
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Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The original hardcover 'Superbad' was a collection of two dozen pieces ranging from postmodern satire to more serious fiction. The lot of it has been remixed--much like popular music--and reprinted in trade paper, the result a challenging novel with a clear set of themes and characters, tightly constructed and intricately interwoven. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9781932360134
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Condición: New. The original hardcover "Superbad" was a collection of two dozen pieces ranging from postmodern satire to more serious fiction. The lot of it has been remixed--much like popular music--and reprinted in trade paper, the result a challenging novel with a clear set of themes and characters, tightly constructed and intricately interwoven. Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 202. . 2004. Reprint. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Nº de ref. del artículo: KEX0228313
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Condición: New. The original hardcover "Superbad" was a collection of two dozen pieces ranging from postmodern satire to more serious fiction. The lot of it has been remixed--much like popular music--and reprinted in trade paper, the result a challenging novel with a clear set of themes and characters, tightly constructed and intricately interwoven. Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 202. . 2004. Reprint. Paperback. . . . . Nº de ref. del artículo: KEX0228313
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