Justine Moppett is 34, pregnant, and fleeing an abusive relationship in New York to dig up an even more traumatic childhood in Austin. Waiting for her there is a cast of more than a dozen misfits ? a hemophobic aspiring serial killer, a deranged soprano opera singer, a debt-addicted entrepreneur-cum-madam, a matchmaking hermaphrodite ? each hurtling toward their own calamities, and, ultimately, toward each other. A Texan Gabriel Garc???a M???rquez who writes tragicomic twists reminiscent of John Kennedy Toole, Bill Cotter ...
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Justine Moppett is 34, pregnant, and fleeing an abusive relationship in New York to dig up an even more traumatic childhood in Austin. Waiting for her there is a cast of more than a dozen misfits ? a hemophobic aspiring serial killer, a deranged soprano opera singer, a debt-addicted entrepreneur-cum-madam, a matchmaking hermaphrodite ? each hurtling toward their own calamities, and, ultimately, toward each other. A Texan Gabriel Garc???a M???rquez who writes tragicomic twists reminiscent of John Kennedy Toole, Bill Cotter produces some of the most visceral, absurd, and downright hilarious sentences to be found in fiction today. The Parallel Apartments is a bold leap forward for a writer whose protean talents, whose sheer exuberance for language and what a novel can do, marks him as one of the most exciting stylists in America.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. O4-A hardcover book SIGNED by author on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has label on the front, scattered wrinkling and crease, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners and cover edgewear, a few small tears on the cover edges and corners, some stains and light scuffing on the page edges, a few dog-eared pages, light discoloration and shelf wear. The Parallel Apartments is a bold leap forward fof a writer whose protean talents, whose sheer exhuberance for language and what a novel can do, marks him as one of the most exciting stylists in America. 9.25"x6.5", 504 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
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Very good. A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.
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