The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories

by Steve Almond

2020-07-09 23:14:41

Steve Almond, the man whose candy jones fueled the bestseller Candyfreak, returns with a collection of stories that both seals his reputation as a master of the modern form and risks getting him arrested. The cast of characters in The Evil B.B. Chow ... Read more
Steve Almond, the man whose candy jones fueled the bestseller Candyfreak, returns with a collection of stories that both seals his reputation as a master of the modern form and risks getting him arrested. The cast of characters in The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories includes a wealthy family certain they have been abducted by space aliens, a sexy magazine editor who falls for a worldclass cad, and a beleaguered dentist who refuses to read his best friend’s novel. Michael Jackson and Abraham Lincoln make cameos, as do a variety of desperate and beautiful loonies, all of whom are laid bare, often literally. In these twelve stories, Almond refuses to let his characters off the hook, or to abandon them, until we have seen the full measure of ourselves within their struggle. Less

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File size7.08x4.98x0.69inches
Print pages233
PublisherAlgonquin Books
Publication date April 1, 2006
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781565125292
Steve Almond is the author of eight books of fiction and nonfiction, including the New York Times–bestsellers Candyfreak and Against Football. His short stories have been anthologized widely, in the...

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