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Better living through plastic explosives : stories / Zsuzsi Gartner.

by Gartner, Zsuzsi.

Hamish Hamilton Canada, c2011.

216 p. ; 22 cm.

Summer of the flesh eater -- Once, we were Swedes -- Floating like a goat -- Investment results may vary -- Adopted Chinese daughter's rebellion -- What are we doing here? -- Someone is killing the great motivational speakers of Amerika -- Mister Kakami -- We come in peace -- Better living through plastic explosives.

"In Better Living through Plastic Explosives, Zsuzsi Gartner delivers a powerful second dose of the lacerating satire that marked her acclaimed debut, All the Anxious Girls on Earth, but with even greater depth and darker humour. Whether she casts her eye on evolution and modern manhood when an upscale cul-de-sac is thrown into chaos after a redneck moves into the neighbourhood, international adoption, war photography, real estate, the movie industry, motivational speakers, or terrorism, Gartner filets the righteous and the ridiculous with dexterity in equal, glorious measure. These stories ruthlessly expose our most secret desires, and allow us to snort with laughter at the grotesque world we'd live in if we all got what we wanted."--Publisher.

Short stories, Canadian.

Canadian fiction.

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