Better living through plastic explosives
Subtitle: stories
By: Zsuzsi Gartner
Publisher: Pintail
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780670066926
Subjects: Canadian Short stories; Canadian Satire
Description: A collection of satirical and darkly humorous stories set in Vancouver which tackle themes of evolution, manhood, international adoption, real estate, the movie industry, science and faith, art, and terrorism.
Notes: "First published in Hamish Hamilton hardcover by Penguin Canada, a division of Pearson Canada, Inc., 2011"--Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: Summer of the flesh eater --; title: Once, we were Swedes --; title: Floating like a goat --; title: Investment results may vary --; title: Adopted Chinese daughters' rebellion --; title: What are we doing here? --; title: Someone is killing the great motivational speakers of amerika --; title: Mister Kakami --; title: We come in peace ---- Better living through plastic explosives.