Description
Fiction. Short Stories. A seven-foot-tall member of the Greatest Generation gets to stay home from World War II and fornicate with his friends' wives... sexually ambiguous creatures lay a sixfigure book advance on a harelip... an obese janitor in a Mormon prayer hall wedges himself behind the organ pipes, dies, and "fills the joint with green corpse steam..." Meanwhile, in China... A Palestinian medical student gets chained to a conveyor belt in a Manchurian abortion mill... a former Red Guard returns from rustication only to find his comrades running a bourgeois beauty salon called Syjvester Stajjone's... an American "foreign expert" hijacks a beggar's wheelchair and steals a baby...
Author Bio
Tom Bradley's FISSION AMONG THE FANATICS (Spuyten Duyvil Press, NYC) was named Nonfiction Book of the Year 2007 by 3:AM Magazine. Various of his novels have been nominated for the Editor's Book Award and the New York University Bobst Prize, and one was a finalist in the AWP Award Series in the Novel. Reviews and excerpts, a couple hours of recorded readings, plus links to Tom's essays in Salon.com and other such high-tone swanky magazines, are at tombradley.org.
Author City: Nagasaki JAP