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Title: I Smell Esther Williams: And Other Stories by Mark Leyner ISBN: 0-679-75045-2 Publisher: Vintage Contemporaries Pub. Date: 01 February, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Unreadable
Comment: 'Tooth Imprints on A Corndog' is great. This one is an unreadable collection of rambling nonsense.
Rating: 1
Summary: Not the smart satirist and absurdist he would later become
Comment: Leyner is more often than not a solid 4-star writer (My Cousin, Et Tu, Tetherballs), but his first book offers little pleasure beyond the fun of its title. A number of years passed between this debut and the much more worthwhile "My Cousin" and it was a healthy period of artistic growth, evidently. There are a few flashes of cleverness here and there, but this is overall a soggy and underdeveloped effort that makes you realize how delicate and precise his unique style is: in later works, it's a marvel of pop culture satire, rapid fire wit, and intriguing arcania. Here, it's a sophomoric dud that too often reads like really bad Barthelme. Or really bad Leyner.
Rating: 1
Summary: Beware
Comment: Don't misunderstand: everything Leyner's done after this first collection is brilliant writing and mandatory reading. But ESTHER WILLIAMS is the most godawful hodgepodge of literary conceits and pratfalls you may ever be unlucky enough to read. Obviously, some episode of satori marked the time between this and his next book, the now-classic MY COUSIN, MY GASTROENTEROLOGIST. I'm being harsher than I should be, perhaps, considering how great a satirist Leyner has become. But even he probably wishes this book would crawl off his resume. Take a pass on ESTHER and go straight to his other four collections.
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Title: Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog (Vintage Comtemporaries) by Mark Leyner ISBN: 0679745211 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Tetherballs of Bougainville: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) by Mark Leyner ISBN: 067976349X Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Et Tu, Babe (Vintage Contemporaries) by Mark Leyner ISBN: 0679745068 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist (Vintage Contemporaries) by Mark Leyner ISBN: 0679745793 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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