Mark Leyner
Paperback | Pages: 240 pages Rating: 3.71 | 1066 Users | 105 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Tetherballs of Bougainville |
| ISBN: | 067976349X (ISBN13: 9780679763499) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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From his cult classic, I Smell Esther Williams, to his wildly popular and insightful column "Wild Kingdom" appearing in Esquire magazine every month, Mark Leyner has been giving us up close and personal encounters of the most hilarious kind for over a decade.Now, in his new novel The Tetherballs of Bougainville, Leyner shares with us, long last, the quintessential coming of age story that every writer, at some point, is compelled to tell. In the novel we meet young Mark Leyner, 13-years-old to be exact, as he waits in a New Jersey prison to witness his father's execution. Adolescence is never easy, and it just so happens that this junior high schooler is on deadline to turn in a screenplay for which he has already been awarded the Vincent and Lenore DiGiacomo/Oshimitsu Polymers America Award. And, as it was for all of us during out teenage years, nothing seems to go as planned.
Written as autobiography, screenplay and movie review, The Tetherballs of Bougainville twists three familiar narrative forms into an outlandishly compelling story. Leyner's use of the media-driven formats brilliantly reflects our secret, shameful and hilarious desire to experience our private lives as mass entertainment. The Tetherballs of Bougainville skewers and celebrates American pop culture in the late twentieth century. Leyner's version of our lives is so deeply funny because it is so painfully true.
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| Title | : | The Tetherballs of Bougainville |
| Author | : | Mark Leyner |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 240 pages |
| Published | : | September 1st 1998 by Vintage (first published 1997) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Humor. Literary Fiction. Novels. Literature |
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Ratings: 3.71 From 1066 Users | 105 ReviewsCommentary Containing Books The Tetherballs of Bougainville
such a WEIRD book but so so funny - a funky ride.The truth is, I picked up this book for one strange reason: it has a character named Len Gutman who is a writer. How could I not read it?Have you ever googled yourself? Come on, be honest. I do every once in a while and this book kept coming up because of the character with my name. So I finally bought it a few weeks ago.Sad to say, I gave up about 1/3 of the way through...right after the character Len Gutman was first introduced and a few pages later when the strange story of his death came to
In short, this book is totally insane.Technically taking place during the course of a single afternoon, The Tetherballs of Bougainville is somehow a sprawling, chaotic, and hilarious journey through the verbose psycho-ramblings of the 13-year old narrator.The spectacular first portion of the book starts with the botched execution of the main character's father who is then released into the New Jersey Discretionary Execution Program, where he could be instantly killed by the authorities at any
If this rambling, tedious, overly erudite "novel" had been 4x longer than it was, I probably would've docked a star or two. Take note, ghost of DFW.
any a$$hole with a master of social work can put on a turban and start issuing fatwas about whom you can and whom you can't mail meat to, but it takes real balls to turn a brunette without a cranium into a blonde."
This started off SO strong but became a chore to finish.
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