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My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist

Mark Leyner

Paperback | Pages: 154 pages

Rating: 3.69 | 1631 Users | 144 Reviews

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Original Title:	My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist
ISBN:	0679745793 (ISBN13: 9780679745792)
Edition Language:	English

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My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist is a postmodernist/absurdist book composed of 17 loosely-related chapters with no general storyline. It is voiced in first-person by an anonymous narrator often using jargon, broken grammar and punctuation with a poetry-like structure. The narration shifts quickly from random idea to idea with little to no connectivity between them, typically giving vivid descriptions of abstract situations. The narrative styles in the book vary significantly as well, with no apparent solid identity to the narrator itself. Some characters and ideas emerge suddenly and disappear without explanation.

Within this form incorporate elements of science fiction, cyberpunk, tabloid journalism, and advertising slogans. Due to its use of pop-culture references (e.g. to kung-fu films) and literary allusions it requires knowledge of (then) current affairs. Leyner resorts to irony and humor as a means of interplay with traditional realism.

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Title	:	My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist
Author	:	Mark Leyner
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 154 pages
Published	:	May 10th 1995 by Vintage (first published 1990)
Categories	:	Fiction. Humor. Short Stories. Literature

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Ratings: 3.69 From 1631 Users | 144 Reviews

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twee little dessert item. some enjoyably oddball passages keep the interest, much like listening to someone go on and on during their acid trip when you aren't on acid yourself.... irritating and occasionally hilarious. but mainly exhausting.

I had a crush on this book when I was a kid. The book, not the man behind the book. I remember reading the story, The Suggestiveness of One Stray Hair in an Otherwise Perfect Coiffure, in my head -- in the bookstore before buying it -- and laughing like a friendless madman. And I sort of remember reading it out loud at a party or at several parties and laughing like a drunken, friendless madman. Girls really dig me, I sort of remember thinking. Those were the days.I still laugh when I bother to

The funniest fucking thing I have ever read. Almost every page is jammed with absurd details and dark punchlines...prepare to squint in confusion and roll with uproarious laughter and applause! It is sort of like DFW meets William S. Burroughs crossed w/the respective films Schizopolis by Steven Soderbergh and Putney Swope by Robert Downey, Sr. (a man even more talented than his much more well known son from my POV), but throwing around convuluted comparisons doesn't give this

Mark Leyner is not, according to the latest reports, a fictional character created by DFW parodying the sort of 1990s hipster prose artist that writes books composed entirely of rhythmical free-association surrealism riddled with medical terminology. Apparently, this dude wearing the hilarious red-spotted tie on the cover and sporting shades on the inside pic, lowered so we might peer into the artists mesmeric eyes, is in fact a real person who wrote this real book. Strange world. Leyners prose

An awful lot of fun. The first half of the collection is noticeably better than the second. Loved the use of E-13B IDAutomationMICR for the chapter number font, which I (maddeningly!) couldn't place until this morning -- I kept thinking "space invaders" for some stupid reason. The text itself is of course just logorrhea and farrago, but the best of its kind. Found myself laughing so loudly at times that I worried I'd wake my roommate.----Discovered in David Foster Wallace's essay "E Unibus

I had no idea how hungry I was for this sort of play.

Part I(view spoiler)[ {[(A Review in Eight Words and One Dot.)]} (hide spoiler)]Part II(view spoiler)[My Cousin, My GastroenterologistLeyner, MarkPublished by New York: Harmony Books, 1990 (1990)Used Softcover SignedQuantity Available: 1From: Johanson Rare Books ABAA (Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.)Bookseller Rating: 4-star ratingAdd Book to Shopping BasketPrice: £ 27.14Convert CurrencyShipping: £ 4.61Within U.S.A.Destination, Rates & SpeedsItem Description: New York: Harmony Books, 1990, 1990. John