num_pages: 410
description: Lord of the Barnyard is a brilliantly comic tapestry of a Middle America still populated by river rats and assembly-line poultry killers, measuring into shot glasses the fruits of years of quiet desperation on the factory floor. Unforgettable and linguistically dizzying, it goes much farther than postal.
language: English
title: Lord of the Barnyard: Killing the Fatted Calf and Arming the Aware in the Corn Belt
titlecomplete: Lord of the Barnyard: Killing the Fatted Calf and Arming the Aware in the Corn Belt
genres: Roman, Literature, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Americana, Unfinished, Novels, The United States Of America, American
ratings_count: 1405
publisher: Picador