extremely disturbing. It's powerful-both steel-eyed and sexy; horrifying and captivating." Now, in this first book of fictional set pieces, Korine captures the fragmented moments of a life observed through the demented lens of media, TV, and teen obsession. Korine reinvents the novel in this highly experimental montage of scenes that seem both real and surreal at the same time. With a filmmaker's eye and a prankster's glee, this bizarre collection of jokes, half-remembered scenes, dialogue fragments, movie ideas, and suicide notes is an episodic, epigrammatic lovesong to the world of images. Korine is the voice of his media-savvy generation and A Crack-Up at the Race Riots is the satiric lovechild of his dark imagination. As has already been pointed out, there's nothing coherent about this book except its own incoherence, its anti-form form. As with most decadent and absurdist literature, the whole is subordinate to the parts, and these parts include nonsensical fragments of conversations, random ideas, bad jokes, suicide notes, and a picture of MC Hammer at age 12. Taken together, they illuminate the bizzare and dark sensibilities of a truly talented and passionate young artist with a sensitive finger on the pulse of this American nation. But don't take them together. Or at least, don't try to fit them together into some meaningful message. There isn't one. Or perhaps rather, in the most absract sense, the message is there is no message. So if you're looking for and are used to a well crafted story and plot that