Happy Mutant Baby Pills - A Novel (Paperback)

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, and his job is to recite and minimize-sometimes by just saying them really fast-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, to exact revenge on those who poison the populace in order to sell them the cure. Stahl's gleefully twisted, maniacally brilliant prose, will delight, appall, and prove, once again, that Stahl is a better-than-Burroughs virtuoso (New Yorker).

General

Imprint:	William Morrow
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2013
First published:	November 2013
Authors:	Jerry Stahl
Dimensions:	199 x 155 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-0-06-199050-2
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-06-199050-7
Barcode:	9780061990502

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