Synopses & Reviews
These stories are linked by humor, setting, themes and recurring characters cat lovers, murderers, gamblers, ghosts and fools but mostly by the movie stars, gods and goddesses who look down on us struggling mortals with a mixture of benevolence and wrath. From Scarlett Johansson to Joan Crawford, Clint Eastwood to Jerry Lewis, they represent the impossible ideals to which lesser beings turn for hope in an otherwise baffling world.
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"Funny, poetic, vivid, unique. Jack Pendarvis has crafted a collection of gems." Lauren Graham, author of Someday, Someday Maybe
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"I like all of the yearning weirdos who wander through the work of Jack Pendarvis. You will like them too, because he reminds us we are all yearning weirdos, looking to the stars, movie and otherwise, for some fate and guidance. These stories are true ha ha funny, courageously strange, humane and affecting, and really, really good." John Hodgman, author of That Is All
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"Every minute you are not yet reading Jack Pendarvis should be an interminable agony." Anthony Bourdain, author of Kitchen Confidential and Get Jiro: Blood and Sushi
About the Author
Jack Pendarvis is the author of three previous books of fiction and one of nonfiction. A former columnist for both the Oxford American and the Believer, he is a staff writer for the television show Adventure Time and a freelance writer for Spongebob Squarepants. He lives in Oxford, MS.