Elect Mr. Robinson for a better world / Donald Antrim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Antrim, Donald.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Elementary school teachers--Fiction.

Elementary school teachers.

Mayors--Election--Fiction.

Mayors.

Violence--Fiction.

Violence.

Mayors--Election.

Genre:

Fiction.

Black humor (Literature)

Humorous fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

185 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Vintage Contemporaries edition.

Other Title:

Elect Mister Robinson for a better world

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Contemporaries, 2001.

Summary:

In his first novel, Elect Mr. Robinson For a Better World, Donald Antrim demonstrates all of the skill that critics have hailed in his subsequent work: the pitch-perfect ear, the cunning imagination, and the uncanny control of a narrative at once familiar and incandescently strange.

In Pete Robinson's seaside suburban town, things have, well, fallen into disrepair. The voters have de-funded schools, the mayor has been drawn and quartered by an angry mob of townsmen, and Turtle Pond Park is stocked with claymore mines. Pete Robinson, third grade teacher with a 1:32 scale model of an Inquisition dungeon in his basement, wants to open a new school, and in his effort to do so he stumbles upon another idea: he needs to run for mayor. Uniquely hilarious, this novel is a horrifyingly insightful tale of a world frighteningly similar to the one in which we live.

Other Format:

Online version: Antrim, Donald. Elect Mr. Robinson for a better world.

ISBN:

0375725032

9780375725036

OCLC:

44841573

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