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Salmonella men on Planet Porno and other stories / Yasutaka Tsutsui ; translated by Andrew Driver.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tsutsui, Yasutaka, 1934-
- Standardized Title:
- Poruno wakusei no sarumonera ningen. English.
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Tsutsui, Yasutaka, 1934---Translations into English.
- Tsutsui, Yasutaka.
- Tsutsui, Yasutaka, 1934-.
- Folly--Fiction.
- Folly.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 252 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Richmond : Alma, 2006.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Japanese.
- Summary:
- Defying the commonly held perceptions of time and space, and escaping any easy classifications, Yasutaka Tsutsui's stories centre on the folly of human desire. Most of his characters suffer awful fates as a result of their own foolishness, which usually takes the form of greed, lust or vanity. With influences as diverse as Darwin, Freud and the Marx Brothers, his writing displays a mixture of pathos, slapstick and psychological insight, shot through with bolts of Kafkaesque inventiveness. Tsutsui's quirky imagination, and his ability to construct new and striking realities, threaded with a dark-edged, menacing humour, make him a truly unique literary force, and ensure that Salmonella Men on Planet Porno is hard to put down and impossible to forget.
- Contents:
- The Dabba Dabba Tree 3
- Rumours about Me 17
- Don't Laugh 35
- Farmer Airlines 41
- Bear's Wood Main Line 59
- The Very Edge of Happiness 77
- Commuter Army 91
- Hello, Hello, Hello! 115
- The World Is Tilting 127
- Bravo Herr Mozart! 151
- The Last Smoker 155
- Bad for the Heart 169
- Salmonella Men on Planet Porno 195.
- ISBN:
- 1846880165
- OCLC:
- 68772629
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