"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Here's Mark, with an aside: "As I browse through this astonishing array of contraband, I can't help but marvel at the ingenuity of the inmates. In the Body Cavity/Rectal section, for instance--I can imagine someone smuggling in a wrapped shank ... But four 5-piece place settings of Bastille stainless-steel flatware? I can see how, during a visit, a girlfriend could convey, through a kiss, a condom partially filled with heroin. But a 959-piece Alsatian Village Puzzle? How? Piece by piece, one kiss per visit per week? Imagine the incarcerated hobbyist's Zen-like equanimity."
Rich stuff, this. But as disorienting as the book may be, it possesses a brutal amount of horsepower--the amount of laughs it will induce excuse myriad indulgences. Half novel, half screenplay, packed to the endpapers with pop culture, The Tetherballs of Bougainville is a full-body experience.
"Leyner is the poet laureate of information overload."
New York Times Magazine
"Leyner throws out every rule...(and is) distinctive for articulating impossible combinations of reality that other people grasp in dreams."
Philadelphia Inquirer
"Leyner's brilliantly discontinuous humor invites comparison with Wiliam Burroughs, Donald Barthelme, and the comedian Steven Wright. It's rude, epic schtick that begs to be read aloud to friends and strangers alike--if only you could figure out where to stop."
Village Voice
"Most current fiction is as well made and exciting as floral wall paper; but here is a writer willing to decorate the room with the contents of his own dynamited head."
Entertainment Weekly
"Marvelously inventive, as nonlinear and unempirical as S.J. Perlman was in his time. And he can be hysterical."
Baltimore Sun
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Shipping:
FREE
Within U.S.A.
Book Description Condition: New. Book is in NEW condition. 0.55. Seller Inventory # 067976349X-2-1
Book Description paperback. Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 067976349X-11-31848344
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 412355-n
Book Description Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Tetherballs of Bougainville 0.59. Book. Seller Inventory # BBS-9780679763499
Book Description Condition: New. New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published 0.55. Seller Inventory # 353-067976349X-new
Book Description Soft Cover. Condition: new. Seller Inventory # 9780679763499
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # I-9780679763499
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Buy for Great customer experience. Seller Inventory # GoldenDragon067976349X
Book Description paperback. Condition: New. Special order direct from the distributor. Seller Inventory # ING9780679763499
Book Description Condition: New. In. Seller Inventory # ria9780679763499_new