Everything abridged : storie$ / Dennard Dayle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dayle, Dennard, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

viii, 336 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Everything abridged : stories

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : The Overlook Press, 2022.

Summary:

"Framed as a reference work of humorous "entries" that offer trenchant social commentary, Everything Abridged presages a dark vision of the near future but tells jokes in the face of it: An intelligence agency operative uncovers a conspiracy to generate conspiracies and realizes his participation in the scheme. A Caribbean monarch meets four decades of American presidents and adjusts his country's foreign policy accordingly. Experiment participants are asked to bring back a gun as quickly as possible. A copywriter on a space colony advertises a weapon with the potential to destroy his home during an intergalactic war. These and other linked stories, many of which feature a speculative bent-about being Black in America, law enforcement practices in an android society, Olympic speed walking, consumerism, nuclear war, and more-are interspersed with hilarious, one-line definitions for words ranging from abolition to zygote, creating a sharply humorous portrait of American inequality. With his singular wit, sharp prose, and shrewd observations, Dennard Dayle captures the struggles his characters face to keep hold of their sanity in a society collapsing into chaos and absurdity."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: A

Annotations

Apex Competitor

B

Bipolar Tendencies

C

Comments

D

Death Comedy Jam

E

F

Free Panels

G

H

Hell in an Inkwell

I

J

K

L

Liberty Points

M

N

No One Gets Shot

O

Own Goal

P

Post-Atomic Stress

Q

Question

R

Recent Activity

S

Space Glaive

T

U

Urban Market, The

V

W

Welcome

X

Y

Z.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

1419760963

9781419760969

OCLC:

1262964833

Publisher Number:

99990990949