Happy Mutant Baby Pills PB Contributor(s): Stahl, Jerry (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061990507 ISBN-13: 9780061990502 Publisher: William Morrow & Company OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Satire - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Crime |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.32" W x 8.02" (0.46 lbs) 272 pages |
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Publisher Description: Lloyd has a particular set of skills. He writes the small print for prescription drugs, marital aids, and incontinence products. The clients present him with a list of possible side effects. His job is to recite and minimize--sometimes by just saying them really fast and other times by finding the language that can render them acceptable. The results are ingenious. The methods diabolical. Lloyd has a habit, too. He cops smack during coffee breaks at his new job writing copy for Christian Swingles, an online dating service for the faithful. He finds a precarious balance between hackwork and heroin until he encounters Nora, a mysterious and troubled young woman, a Sylvia Plath with tattoos and implants, who asks for his help. Lloyd falls swiftly in love, but Nora bestows her affections at a cost. Before Lloyd clears his head from the fog of romance, he finds himself complicit in Nora's grand scheme to horrify the world and exact revenge on those who poison the populace in order to sell them the cure. |
Contributor Bio(s): Stahl, Jerry: - Jerry Stahl is the author of the narcotic memoir Permanent Midnight and Perv--a Love Story, both Los Angeles Times bestsellers, as well as the acclaimed novels Pain Killers, Plainclothes Naked, and I, Fatty. He has written extensively for film and television. |