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Headless by Benjamin Weissman (2004, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherAkashic Books

ISBN-101888451491

ISBN-139781888451498

eBay Product ID (ePID)30292775

Product Key Features

Book TitleHeadless

Number of Pages152 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2004

TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Literary, Humorous / General

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorBenjamin Weissman

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight6.4 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2003-109537

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsWeissman's prose style is truly daring, and his experiments in form and voice are refreshingly original., Weissman is an impishly audacious writer, and that's reason enough to love Headless, his new collection of short stories., Brilliant. Wildly inventive, profane, and hilarious. Benjamin Weissman is a master stylist who in story after story keeps scoring effortlessly. Beneath the deadpan absurdity these virtuoso comic monologues describe--with more intense accuracy than just about anyone else around--what it means to be male., Headless is at play in the world. It is fearless, fun, and sometimes filthy. Weissman invites you into an alphabet soup of delight in language. Eat up.

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisThe author of the acclaimed transgressive cult classic Dear Dead Person returns with this long-awaited second collection of brilliantly written, outrageously imaginative and comedic short stories. In Headless, Weissman turns his daredevil wit and fearless storytelling gifts on subjects ranging from Hitler's secret life as a skier to the philosophical musings of identical twin porn stars to the travails of the world's most sitcom defying family., The third installment in cult novelist Dennis Cooper's groundbreaking Little House on the Bowery series., A selection of Dennis Cooper's Little House on the Bowery series. The author of the acclaimed transgressive cult classic Dear Dead Person returns with this long awaited second collection of brilliantly written, outrageously imaginative and comedic short stories. Benjamin Weissman is one of the true originals in contemporary American fiction. In Headless , he turns his daredevil wit and fearless storytelling gifts on subjects ranging from Hitler's secret life as a skier to the philosophical musings of identical twin porn stars to the travails of the world's most sitcom-defying family. Weissman's dysfunctional, hilarious, and strangely moving tales of life in contemporary America are a real and unique treasure., "[A] playful melange of erotic black comedy and domestic pathos, dysfunctional families and all-too-functional men, dictators and lumberjacks. Weissman is an expert juggler of tone . . ." --Los Angeles Times "[S]urprising, rollicking and clever . . . What makes these stories exciting . . . is Weissman's zesty, original use of language and his unflinching approach to describing human truths, especially the awkward, bizarre or undesirable ones . . . [T]ruly original stories." --Publishers Weekly The author of the acclaimed transgressive cult classic Dear Dead Person returns with this long awaited second collection of brilliantly written, outrageously imaginative and comedic short stories. Benjamin Weissman is one of the true originals in contemporary American fiction. In Headless, he turns his daredevil wit and fearless storytelling gifts on subjects ranging from Hitler's secret life as a skier to the philosophical musings of identical twin porn stars to the travails of the world's most sitcom-defying family. Weissman's dysfunctional, hilarious, and strangely moving tales of life in contemporary America are a real and unique treasure., " Headless is fearless, fun, and sometimes filthy . . . an alphabet soup of -delight in language. Eat up." --Alice Sebold "Brilliant. Wildly inventive, profane, and hilarious." --Bret Easton Ellis The author of the acclaimed cult classic Dear Dead Person ("refreshing, nauseating, hilarious"-- Kirkus ) returns with this long-awaited collection of brilliantly written and outrageously imaginative short stories. Benjamin Weissman is the author of Dear Dead Person (High Risk/Serpent's Tail, 1995). He is a contributing editor to Bomb Magazine and writes regularly for the contemporary art magazines Parkett and Artforum . A painter and a professor at Art Center College of Design and Otis College of the Arts, he now lives in Los Angeles.

LC Classification NumberPS3573.E4168