Bad teeth : a novel
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- ISBN: 9780544262003 (hardback)
- ISBN: 054426200X (hardback)
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Physical Description:
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306 pages ; 22 cm - Publisher: Boston : New Harvest, 2014.
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Subject: | Authorship Fiction Plagiarism Fiction Paranormal fiction Satire |
Genre: | Occult fiction. Humorous fiction. |
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Athens Regional Library System: Athens-Clarke County Library |
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Summary:
"Four interlocking narratives unfurl in four American cities, creating a richly comic feast about love, academia, an elusive Tibetan novelist who might be a plagiarist, and SOFA, a protest group so mysterious its very initials are open to interpretation. Bad Teeth follows a cast of young literary men and women in four very American cities--Brooklyn, Bloomington, Berkeley, and Bakersfield. It's four (or more) books in one, a Pynchonesque treat: a bohemian satire, a campus comedy, a stoner's reverie, and a quadruple love story. Its wonderfully evoked storylines of young writers--each in a period of formation--collect around the search for one mysterious author--"the Tibetan David Foster Wallace," who might in fact be a plagiarist. This delightful and complex literary novel is a comic gem"--